This Friday the president Joseph Biden approved the declaration of emergency in California and ordered federal assistance to supplement state, tribal, and local response efforts due to emergency conditions resulting from severe winter storms, flooding, mudslides, and mudslides beginning Thursday, January 9. March.
The president's action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency "FEMA", to coordinate all disaster relief efforts to alleviate the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency in the local population, and to provide adequate assistance for emergency measures necessary to save lives and protect property and public health and safety.
The action seeks to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in the counties of Amador, Butte, El Dorado, Fresno, Humboldt, Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Lake, Los Angeles, Madera, Mariposa, Mendocino, Merced, Mono, Monterey, Napa , Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Francisco, San Mateo, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Sierra, Sonoma, Stanislaus, Tulare, Tuolumne and Yuba.
Specifically, FEMA is authorized to identify, mobilize and provide, at its discretion, the necessary equipment and resources to alleviate the effects of the emergency.
“Category B” emergency protective measures, limited to direct federal assistance, under the Public Assistance program will be provided with 75 percent federal funding.
President Biden's statement came after Governor Gavin Newsom requested a Presidential Emergency Declaration on Thursday to authorize federal assistance to support state and local responses to severe storms affecting much of the state.
Notably, with the storms forecast to continue through mid-March, the Governor on Wednesday declared a state of emergency in 21 counties to support disaster relief and response efforts, following a state of emergency he declared in 13 counties. initials earlier this month.
"California is deploying every tool we have to protect communities from the unrelenting and deadly storms that batter our state," Newsom said. "In these dangerous and challenging conditions, it is crucial that Californians remain vigilant and follow all instructions from local emergency services."
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