{"id":15947,"date":"2020-04-25T16:26:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T21:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=15947"},"modified":"2020-04-25T14:33:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T19:33:42","slug":"president-donald-j-trump-approves-tennessee-disaster-declaration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2020\/04\/25\/president-donald-j-trump-approves-tennessee-disaster-declaration\/","title":{"rendered":"President Donald J. Trump Approves Tennessee Disaster Declaration"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheWashington, D.C.<\/strong> – On Friday, April 24th, 2020, U.S. President Donald J. Trump declared that a major disaster exists in the State of Tennessee and ordered Federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe storms, tornadoes, straight-line winds, and flooding from April 12th to April 13th, 2020.<\/p>\n

The President\u2019s action makes Federal funding available to affected individuals in Bradley County and Hamilton County.<\/p>\n

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U.S. President Donald J. Trump<\/p><\/div>\n

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This assistance can include grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses, and other programs to help individuals and business owners recover from the effects of the disaster.<\/p>\n

Federal funding also is available to State and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency work and the repair or replacement of facilities damaged by the severe storms, tornadoes, straight-line winds, and flooding in Bradley County, Campbell County, Hamilton County, Marion County, Monroe County, Polk County, Scott County, and Washington County.<\/p>\n

Finally, Federal funding is available on a cost-sharing basis for hazard mitigation measures statewide.<\/p>\n

Pete Gaynor, Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Department of Homeland Security, named Myra M. Shird as the Federal Coordinating Officer for Federal recovery operations in the affected areas.<\/p>\n

Damage assessments are continuing in other areas, and additional counties may be designated for assistance after the assessments are fully completed.<\/p>\n

Residents and business owners who sustained losses in the designated counties can begin applying for assistance tomorrow by registering online at http:\/\/www.DisasterAssistance.gov<\/a> or by calling 1.800.621.FEMA(3362) or 1.800.462.7585 (TTY) for the hearing and speech impaired. The toll-free telephone numbers will operate from 7:00am to 10:00pm (local time) seven days a week until further notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Washington, D.C. – On Friday, April 24th, 2020, U.S. President Donald J. Trump declared that a major disaster exists in the State of Tennessee and ordered Federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe storms, tornadoes, straight-line winds, and flooding from April 12th to April 13th, 2020. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[928,5457,12064,12959,12960,528,529,2897,1908,6661,4243,6157,1905,3527,12961,261,3334,4351,6487,3529,3338],"class_list":["post-15947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-bradley-county","tag-campbell-county","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-federal-aid","tag-federal-disaster-declaration","tag-federal-emergency-management-agency","tag-fema","tag-flooding","tag-hamilton-county","tag-marion-county","tag-monroe-county","tag-polk-county","tag-scott-county","tag-severe-storms","tag-straight-line-winds","tag-tennessee","tag-tornadoes","tag-u-s-department-of-homeland-security","tag-u-s-president","tag-washington-county","tag-washington-d-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15948,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15947\/revisions\/15948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}