Posted on Jul 1, 2021
As Western Wildfires Worsen, FEMA Is Denying Most People Who Ask For Help
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Brenda and Francis Dairy's small ranch house, tucked into the Oregon woods, was built to withstand a wildfire. The siding was concrete, the roof metal. It didn't matter. On Sept. 7 of last year, as the sky turned dark orange and the air grew thick with smoke, flames tore through nearby trees and engulfed the house entirely.
The Beachie Creek Fire destroyed the life that the Dairys had built for themselves in the small town of Gates. Brenda Dairy had spent her free time sewing quilts. Her husband, a disabled veteran, carved wood pens in his shop.
After the fire, they bounced between relatives' houses for a while. But they needed a more stable place to live and a way to pay for it, so they went to the government agency set up to help: the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Brenda and Francis Dairy's small ranch house, tucked into the Oregon woods, was built to withstand a wildfire. The siding was concrete, the roof metal. It didn't matter. On Sept. 7 of last year, as the sky turned dark orange and the air grew thick with smoke, flames tore through nearby trees and engulfed the house entirely.
The Beachie Creek Fire destroyed the life that the Dairys had built for themselves in the small town of Gates. Brenda Dairy had spent her free time sewing quilts. Her husband, a disabled veteran, carved wood pens in his shop.
After the fire, they bounced between relatives' houses for a while. But they needed a more stable place to live and a way to pay for it, so they went to the government agency set up to help: the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
As Western Wildfires Worsen, FEMA Is Denying Most People Who Ask For Help
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Means testing is such nonsense. It virtually guarantees that the only people who will get help are those who need it the least - that is the entire point of restricting aid like this to begin with.
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"The agency will have to figure out how to get money to those who deserve it and keep out those who don't."
A tough call. We all know there are always a lot of scammers trying to get money at times like this. I hope the administrators at FEMA figure this out and help those that need it.
A tough call. We all know there are always a lot of scammers trying to get money at times like this. I hope the administrators at FEMA figure this out and help those that need it.
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