- Oregon’s governor is seeking additional federal assistance as her state battles the deadly wildfires sweeping the western United States, and local residents pitched in on Tuesday to help the many people displaced by the blazes.
Oregon Governor Kate Brown on Monday sent a letter to the White House requesting a Presidential Disaster Declaration following the federal emergency declaration on Sept. 10. The request from the Democratic governor includes a call for additional communications resources, damage-assessment teams, search-and-rescue and debris management, as well as help with shelter and medical assistance.
Ten deaths have been confirmed during the past week in Oregon, the latest flashpoint in a larger summer outbreak of fires accompanied by lightning storms, heat waves and extreme winds. Marcus Welch, a food service director and youth soccer coach in the southwestern Oregon city of Phoenix, said he has been helping a group of local high school students run a community donation center to assist a mostly Latino local population whose mobile homes were burned to the ground. About 600 people have come by to pick up donations, Welch added.
“Every day, I hear a sad story. Every day, I hear a family displaced. People are crying because high school kids are giving them food, water. ... It’s been a total blessing,” Welch said. “Some people, they lost everything, so we encourage them to take everything they can.”
Not to worry though because our president said it would cool off.
hm maybe they should maintain their forests instead of making it illegal to cut down native trees
Here before some republican says 'but what about those dumpsters on that one block of Portland. Rioooots.'
Here’s a thought keep the pricks in jail the fires might subside
Com'mon Trump!!
Federal help includes federal charges for antifa and blm activists that set some of these fires? Does that include federal money to start cleaning the forest you wouldn’t clean up in the first place?
Now she wants help?
Only if she allows for oux money to also pay to clean up Portland from Antifa
I don't see any meaningful federal aid for any blue State. Vote Blue up and down the ticket
Quit releasing the fire starters. Would a good beginning.
ha
So sad....
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