BATON ROUGE, La., Oct. 8, 2020 – Urban Search and Rescue teams from Florida, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and Tennessee arrive in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to begin staging and preparing for operations following Hurricane Delta.
FEMA Photo by Rudolph Marshall
FEMA Region V had it's inaugural Regional Youth Preparedness Council Summit, where our youth leaders discussed preparedness and other emergency manager topics during a two day summit.
Hurricane Harvey struck the Port of Beaumont in 2017, damaging infrastructure, eroding shorelines and making the waterway unpassable for some ships.
Working with FEMA, the shipping hub quickly re-opened and continues to restore and improve facilities.
Mayor Roberto Cedeno is the 74-year old Mayor of Lares. We follow him from picking up food and water at the FEMA Regional Staging Area to Lares where the mayor's team distributes house to house. A thunderstorm erupts and we take shelter in the Lares Hospital where we find they have less than five hours of diesel fuel remaining. Using our SAT phone we call in the information and in less than two hours the diesel generator is filled with fuel....
As a nor’easter approaches the New York City area Wednesday into Thursday, FEMA will temporarily shut down Mobile Disaster Recovery Centers. Fixed Disaster Recovery Centers will maintain their normal hours of operation. Also included in this release are useful tips to help NYC-area residents remain safe during tomorrow’s severe winter weather event.
