In a surprise announcement, #Oregon received notification of a presidential disaster declaration for infrastructure damages from a flooding and landslide event in March 2025. The notification, which came late in the day on July 22 allows FEMA to begin program delivery for eligible costs in Coos, Curry, and Douglas counties.

Projects will be written to cover at least 75% of eligible repair costs.

Individual assistance and hazard mitigation funding was not included, but are listed as being 'under review'.

Five other states also received disaster declarations on 7/22/2025.

Story map profiling the event: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5b3ecd47075844fe8a1d95f28a8e643b

FEMA notification: https://www.fema.gov/disaster/4881

#FEMA #PNW #DisasterRecovery #flooding #EMGtoot

1/🧵 I've been invited to partner with a local county to put on a presentation on how private non-profits can best prepare for disasters in terms of mutual aid and access federal aid for recovery.

There's such a need for education for all organizations these days, this stuff is too complicated unless you can afford consultants.

Which creates #equity issues that many governments have difficulties in addressing.

I want to send some data into the ether that may interest people who wonder how US governments recover from the increasing occurrences of #disasters.

#EMGToot #EMGT #DisasterRecovery #PublicAssistance

https://freeresources.luciencanton.com/

Great article from a Certified Emergency Manager (CEM) Lucien Canton regarding federal disaster reform.

#fema #DisasterRecovery #EMGToot #EmergencyManagement #Disaster #USPolicy #DisasterPreparedness #HazardMitigation

Working as a SimCell Injector for a statewide exercise today and throughout the week. We're stress testing the State's systems to respond to a 9.0 Cascadia subduction event.

We will get some great data and opportunities for improvement from this effort.

#pnw #Cascadia #earthquake #emergencypreparedness #EMGToot #emergencymanagers

I was voluntold to attend FEMA's Western Region Wildfire Summit being held in Boise, ID this month. The topic list looks solid.

#FEMA #EmergencyManagement #WildFire #DisasterRecovery #EMGtoot

My colleagues and I finished assessing damages from the January 2024 Winter Ice and Wind #storms... Wow. Some municipalities saw 3-4" of ice accumulation over a few days and near total loss of their urban tree canopies. If you've been to western #Oregon You know there's a ton of trees :(

~60% of assessed damages were from public utility providers' electrical distribution systems. I'm envisioning a future of buried lines.

What a week!

#disaster #naturalDisaster #disaster #EMGToot

This paper highlights what forest managers have been observing for a few decades. Regime shifts from climate changes will exacerbate fires in the PNW #wildfire #pnw #oregon #washington #fire #forestry #ForestManagement #emgtoot

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JG007722

Please boost! I'm curious if anyone on the #fediverse is involved with #baer response or coordination, at any level?

Interested in listening to other folks' perspectives on mitigation and response to post fire challenges.

#wildfire #baer #emgtoot #emergencymanagent #debrisflow #usfs #pnw