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Although the facility was created to handle a spring 2020 onslaught of COVID-19 deaths, it now holds the bodies of people who have died of various causes and are awaiting final arrangements.

Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava addressed the media on Friday afternoon to talk about the rescue efforts in Surfside, Florida, following a condo collapse on Thursday morning.

Kevin Guthrie, director at Florida Division of Emergency Management, spoke Friday morning about an emergency declaration to assist in efforts in Surfside, Florida.

Although the Federal Emergency Management Agency started accepting applications April 12 for its funeral-assistance program, some San Diegans are still waiting for their reimbursements.

“I’m waiting for a chapter to be closed.” NBC 7’s Lauren Coronado spoke to a women who’s trying to cut through the tape and get reimbursed for her mother’s funeral expenses.

As the Atlantic hurricane season approaches, President Biden says FEMA will distribute $1 billion for states to shore up their resilience ahead of the threat of storms and wildfires.

The federal government recently launched a public assistance program that seeks to help family members of people who died due to COVID-19 receive reimbursements for funeral expenses through the Federal Emergency Management Agency. However, complaints of scams were reported before the program even officially launched.

Hundreds of thousands of people have lost their lives because of COVID-19. That meant many people were left planning funerals. Funerals are not cheap, so many people were left with a bill for thousands of dollars. FEMA’s new program hopes to help people in that situation.

Beginning in early April, residents in San Diego County and nationwide will be able to apply for financial help for funeral expenses through FEMA’s COVID-19 Funeral Assistance Program.

FEMA’s COVID-19 Funeral Assistance program will reimburse individuals and households for COVID-19 related funeral expenses incurred between Jan. 20, 2020 and December 2020 to help ease some of the financial stress and burden caused by the pandemic.

The Biden administration is facing growing questions about why it wasn’t more prepared for an influx of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border

The Biden administration is turning to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for help managing and caring for record numbers of unaccompanied immigrant children who are streaming into the United States by illegally crossing the border with Mexico.

President Joe Biden discussed the federal response to the winter storms in his visit to Houston, Texas, on Friday. “We will be true partners to help you recover and rebuild from the storms and this pandemic and the economic crisis. We’re in it for the long haul.” FEMA, he said, is providing millions of gallons of water, meals, and assistance...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced on Tuesday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency was expanding disaster relief coverage for an additional 31 counties in Texas following the state’s devastating storms. Psaki also highlighted President Joe Biden’s upcoming trip to Houston to survey the damage.

In a call with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Thursday night, President Joe Biden pledged federal support for the state as the severe weather situation that left millions without power in freezing conditions continued

Crippling winter weather is hampering vaccination efforts in swaths of the country and that has forced the cancellation of some mass inoculation events.

Since the start of the pandemic, dozens of fundraisers have appeared on the popular crowd-funding website GoFundMe asking for donations to pay for a loved one’s funeral. Each family has a different story, but they all have one thing in common: the inability to afford a proper burial.  “I can’t even imagine where we would’ve been had we not...

Dozens of fundraisers have appeared on crowd-funding websites asking for donations. Each family has a different story, but they all have one thing in common: The inability to afford a proper burial, reports NBC 7’s Amber Frias.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is deploying or supporting vaccination sites in at least 11 states after President Joe Biden ordered the government to get on a war footing in his mission to vaccinate 300 million Americans by summer’s end, NBC News reports. The states are Arizona, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington, according...

President-elect Joe Biden is nominating New York emergency department commissioner Deanne Criswell to serve as the Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator