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FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from 100-year flood map before expansion, records show
Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, as the camp ...
FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that ...
Dem Calls for Investigation of Kristi Noem Over Fema's Texas Flood Response
Democratic Representative Jared Moskowitz has called for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to be investigated over the ...
Trump's cost-cutting efforts delayed FEMA's response to Texas floods, officials say
Some FEMA officials claim President Trump's cost-cutting policies are to blame for the delayed response to the disastrous ...
FEMA records show Kerr County didn't alert all cellphones as flooding began
FEMA records show Kerr County officials did not use FEMA’s system to send warnings to phones in the critical hours as the ...
Free FEMA map provides insight into flood-zone risks
The FEMA Flood Map Service Center offers an interactive map that allows anyone in the U.S. to enter their address and see if ...
Trump administration scraps plan to abolish FEMA, Washington Post reports
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has backed away from abolishing the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the ...
Maddow Blog | ‘Completely absent’: Why is Trump’s acting FEMA chief nowhere to be found?
In the wake of deadly flooding in Texas, we don’t know where the current FEMA chief is, or whether he’s even doing the job.