Tag: Fema
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Jefferson County sends out surveys for Hazard Mitigation Plan
Jefferson County officials asked residents to chime in on potential hazards to their communities to help secure mitigation funding in the future. The county sent out its Hazard Mitigation Plan Survey on Saturday, asking residents to categorize the risk levels of certain natural disasters in their areas. These included floods, severe wind, hail and extreme…
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Gov. Jared Polis urges Trump to reverse FEMA disaster aid denials
Gov. Jared Polis and Democratic U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper are calling on President Donald Trump to reverse federal denial of Colorado’s requests for federal disaster declarations tied to recent wildfires and flooding. Polis’ office said he received two denial letters from the Federal Emergency Management Agency late Saturday. The letters followed requests…
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Colorado sues Trump administration over disaster relief funding
Colorado joined 11 other states in a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency over grant funding for emergency and disaster relief. The lawsuit, which also named DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and acting FEMA administrator David Richardson, alleged the agencies and the Trump administration imposed “illegal and impossible-to-meet” terms…
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Denver joins suit against Trump administration claiming grants have unlawful conditions
Denver has joined Chicago, New York, Boston, Baltimore, New Haven, Minneapolis and St. Paul in suing the Trump administration over what they claim are unlawful conditions imposed on federal grant funding. The lawsuit, filed Monday in a U.S. District Court in Illinois, “aims to prevent the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Federal Emergency Management…
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Denver joins lawsuit against Trump administration over FEMA funds termination
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Denver has joined Chicago and Pima County in Arizona in filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its termination of federal funding awarded to local jurisdictions to help defray the cost of aiding the tens of thousands of immigrants who arrived in America’s interior…
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Colorado allocated $9.7M in FEMA funding for illegal immigration crisis, less than last year’s allocation
The Biden administration has allocated less money to Colorado in the latest round of federal funding for the illegal immigration crisis that Denver officials have struggled to respond to and which has cost the city tens of millions of dollars. And just like year, other cities are poised to get more funding than Denver. The Federal…
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Colorado gets another dam grant
The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that Colorado will receive a $705,473 grant to enhance its dam safety efforts. Rich Hansen, FEMA Region 8 Dam Safety Program Specialist, said the annual funding comes from the National Dam Safety State Assistance Grant Program, which provides financial assistance for activities such as dam safety training, inspections, development…
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FEMA funding disparity: Texas and New York receive lion’s share of funds for immigration crisis
Colorado struggles to secure federal funding, getting only about 3% of FEMA dollars for communities responding to the crisis
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74-year-old Superior man first to put a for sale sign up after DIY Marshall Fire cleanup
Two straight months of tossing out the ruins of your life’s work will consume a man. That’s why the total gravity of the Marshall Fire’s destruction didn’t sink in for Paul Williams until he saw the wrecked landscape of Original Town Superior from a high mountain trail. “I’ll miss the open space and I’ll miss…
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Legal disputes mean a delay in Marshall fire cleanup as officials play blame game
Charred piles of furniture, cars, fenceposts and foundations destroyed by the Marshall fire will stay put for a while longer as disputes over the multimillion dollar debris cleanup contract are assessed. This means that Boulder County residents who had hoped to begin rebuilding by July 1, the original proposed date for completion of the Debris…