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Helene left more than 1 million Floridians without power and coastal floods along Florida's west coast. Here's how to safely return from evacuating.
If your insurer is not responsive, you can file a complaint with the state’s Division of Consumer Services. You can also contact the state’s insurance consumer advocate at (850) 413-5923 or ...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a state of emergency for 61 counties on Tuesday to help agencies prepare for the storm. The governor also requested a pre-landfall emergency declaration from FEMA.
Homeowners had 180 days from the time of Hurricane Matthew's passage to file insurance claims with the National Flood Insurance Program. [103] By March 2017, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) approved 6,754 applications for individual assistance, totaling $19,936,013.23. The agency also approved of $20,665,898.05 in public ...
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is a program created by the Congress of the United States in 1968 through the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (P.L. 90-448). The NFIP has two purposes: to share the risk of flood losses through flood insurance and to reduce flood damages by restricting floodplain development.
The Florida Division of Emergency Management (DEM) is charged with maintaining a comprehensive statewide program of emergency management. The division ensures that Florida is prepared to respond to emergencies, recover from them, and mitigate their impacts. DEM is responsible for the State Emergency Response Team (SERT) which is composed of ...
Rep. Jared Moskowitz, a Broward County Democrat who served as the director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management under a GOP governor from 2019 to 2021, knows all about FEMA’s critical ...
The National Flood Insurance Program paid out approximately $519.8 million to those who filed claims. Operation Blue Roof, an Army Corps of Engineers program to repair damaged roofs, installed 13,370 temporary roofs. [222] President Donald Trump meeting with FEMA Administrator Brock Long and Senator Marco Rubio in Fort Myers on September 14