Alameda County – Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) has opened Disaster Recovery Centers (DRCs) in Dublin and Oakland to assist Alameda County residents who need financial help to make repairs
frustrating. we re so frustrated. but roseanne and paula, two widowed sisters, have had this fema trailer on their property for more than a month and they re still locked out of it because the water still isn t hooked up and until it passes inspection, they re not allowed inside. fema s rules. so they re still living with little power, hauling water from their neighbor s house to boil for showers. at this point, what s the timeline to get the rest of these delivered? we re looking on private sites, commercial sites, sometime in the middle of march have all of those needs filled. now fema stresses they have provided assistance for rent and repairs to tens of thousands of households and since that flood zone rule change last month, they say far more of those housing units are going out, but jake, you saw still so many people there are struggling and a lot of them want to know when their support may be arriving. i want to know, too. thank you so much. you can follow me on face
to get through to respond to a disaster. reporter: but fema defends their process. do you think more needs to be done to cut red tape to deliver these trailers now? we don t have any issues with red tape at the moment. reporter: keith denying is one of the fema officials leading the recovery. what some call red tape, he calls federal regular laying ppgs. we re working faster. and frustrating. we re so frustrated. reporter: but roseanne and paula, two widowed sisters, have had this fema trailer on their property for more than a month and they are still locked out of it because the water still is not hooked up. and until it passes inspection, they are not allowed inside. fema s rules. so they are still living with little power hauling water from their neighbor s house to boil for showers. what is the time line to get the rest of these delivered? we re looking on certain sites, sometime the middle of
WASHINGTON This week, FEMA announced over $117 million was provided to survivors in additional assistance due to a policy update which expanded cleaning and sanitizing assistance following a disaster. Because of the policy update, more than 391,000 additional applicants have been able to get financial help.