More than four months after a wildfire roared through Malden, Washington, the federal government still hasn t acted on the state s emergency disaster declaration.
Washington’s U.S. senators and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) say they’ve asked President Joe Biden to approve a major disaster declaration for eastern Washington towns that were burned by wildfires last fall. Those include the Whitman County town of Malden, which lost about 80% of its homes.
Then-President Trump never responded to two disaster applications from Governor Inslee. That, say Malden leaders, has kept their recovery effort in limbo. It has kept them from accessing other forms of aid. Many of the burned homes were uninsured or underinsured.
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