Latest FEMA Headlines
All the headlines from our FEMA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
U.S. Senate panel advises scrapping, then rebuilding, FEMA
May 8 2006 // News Currents The United States’ disaster response agency should be abolished and rebuilt from scratch to avoid a repeat of government failures exposed by Hurricane Katrina, a Senate inquiry has concluded. Crippled...
ChoicePoint Comments on FEMA Investigation
May 1 2006 // The Associated Press filed a story Wednesday, April 26, about a federal General Accounting Office (GAO) investigation of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and fraud associated with its post-Katrina financial...
U.S. Senate Panel Advises Scrapping, Then Rebuilding, FEMA
Apr 27 2006 // The United States’ disaster response agency should be abolished and rebuilt from scratch to avoid a repeat of government failures exposed by Hurricane Katrina, a Senate inquiry has concluded. Crippled by years of...
FEMA Wants $4.7M in Mississippi Katrina Victims’ Benefits
Apr 24 2006 // More than 2,000 Mississippi residents have been notified that they must repay millions of dollars in federal Hurricane Katrina benefits that were excessive or, in some cases, fraudulent. The Federal Emergency Management...
FEMA: ‘We Will be Prepared for 2006 Hurricanes’
Apr 13 2006 // The nation’s top emergency planner is promising that the government has learned from past mistakes and will be prepared for the upcoming 2006 hurricane season. R. David Paulison, acting director for the Federal...
FEMA Provides Flood Recovery, Rebuilding Guidance for La.
Apr 13 2006 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced it has released flood recovery guidance documents for Jefferson, Orleans and St. Bernard parishes as well as portions of Plaquemines and St. Charles parishes in...
FEMA Delivers Trailers in Okla.
Apr 12 2006 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency has begun to deliver manufactured homes to Oklahoma families displaced by wildfires. The first home was delivered to Chad and Shalin Dumos in Ratliff City in southern Oklahoma. The...
Miss. Kicks Off 2006 Hurricane Awareness Program
Apr 7 2006 // Local, state and federal officials have joined Governor Haley Barbour in announcing an eight-week informational campaign to help make Mississippians more aware of how to protect themselves as the 2006 hurricane season...
New Orleans Residents Await Guidance on Flood Zones
Apr 4 2006 // Audrey Celistan desperately wants to return to New Orleans and rebuild the three-bedroom brick house she lived in for 42 years before Hurricane Katrina drowned it in more than 10 feet (3 meters) of muddy water. Lucky for...
Officials hope ’06 quake centennial prompts more to get insurance
Apr 3 2006 // When San Francisco resident Charlie Bott got an offer in the mail recently for earthquake insurance, he stared long and hard at the bottom line. Then he threw it away. “It was way beyond anything you pay for house...
Spotlight: Catastrophic Coverage
Apr 3 2006 // Ruins of San Francisco’s city hall after the earthquake and fire of 1906. Photo courtesy of Fireman’s Fund. San Francisco street scene after the earthquake and fire of 1906. Photo courtesy of Fireman’s...
Officials Hope ’06 Quake Centennial Prompts More to Get Insurance
Mar 20 2006 // When San Francisco resident Charlie Bott got an offer in the mail recently for earthquake insurance, he stared long and hard at the bottom line. Then he threw it away. “It was way beyond anything you pay for house...
Few homeowners buy flood insurance when not required, RAND study says
Mar 20 2006 // Only about half of homeowners living in some of the most flood-prone areas of the United States buy federal flood insurance, leaving millions of families at risk for severe financial losses when floods strike, according to...
Few homeowners buy flood insurance when not required, RAND study says
Mar 19 2006 // News Currents Only about half of homeowners living in some of the most flood-prone areas of the United States buy federal flood insurance, leaving millions of families at risk for severe financial losses when floods...
Scam Artists Could be Lurking Around the Corner
Mar 2 2006 // When flood waters subside, one of the first things to surface is the scam artist. Officials in Texas and Louisiana have issued warnings about telephone finagling and in-your-face scams. Their advice: Guard your personal...
Calif. Home Inspections for Flood Damage Begin
Mar 1 2006 // Damage inspectors from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have begun meeting with California homeowners and renters who registered for disaster assistance after the severe flooding of December and January. FEMA...
Disaster Assistance Outreach Unit Comes to Robertsdale, Ala.
Feb 21 2006 // A Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Disaster Assistance Outreach unit will visit Robertsdale on Thursday, Feb. 23-28. The unit will be closed on Sunday. It will open on Thursday at 11 a.m. and will be open 8 a.m....
Miss. Communities Have Until Feb. 28 to Collect Debris Roe Requests
Feb 21 2006 // Local governments in Mississippi requesting federal funding for debris removal on private property have until Feb. 28, 2006, to collect signed Right of Entry (ROE) requests from residential property owners. The date...
SBA Loan Application Necessary for Assistance in Ala. Recovery
Feb 17 2006 // The U.S Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) urges Hurricane Katrina survivors who registered for disaster assistance to complete and return the loan application they received...
Houston Man Offers Guilty Plea in Katrina Disaster Fund Scheme
Feb 16 2006 // United States Attorney Chuck Rosenberg reported that Clifford Neville, 53, of Houston, Texas, has been convicted of filing a false claim with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for Hurricane Katrina Disaster...
