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FEMA sending teams to West Virginia

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Teams from the Federal Emergency Management Agency will soon be heading into the most flood-ravaged areas of West Virginia.

On Friday, FEMA Region II began deploying an Incident Management Assistance Team and Preliminary Damage Assessment teams to West Virginia to help start the application process for a Federal Disaster Declaration.

“There’s been a lot of displacement here. Businesses are out, no power,” said U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) from White Sulphur Springs, one of the spots she visited Friday to see flood damage.

She spoke with FEMA Region III officials earlier in the day about possible help from the federal level.

“That’s really important for community assistance, but it’s especially important for individual assistance,” Capito noted.

The FEMA teams will join state officials, local officials and those with the U.S. Small Business Administration in Clay, Greenbrier, Kanawha, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Roane, Webster and other counties to assess damages and the effects on communities.

If the destruction goes beyond what a state is capable of handling, federal assistance is a possible option.

A formal request for a Federal Disaster Declaration must be submitted.

In addition to West Virginia, the jurisdiction for FEMA Region III includes Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia.





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