Trump Questions FEMA’s Future Just When LA Needs It Most
The agency is currently juggling the response to more than 100 major disasters nationwide.
A resident whose house was destroyed speaks with a FEMA worker after the Eaton fire in Pasadena, California, on Jan. 17.
Photographer: Jill Connelly/BloombergFire-wracked Los Angeles, facing its worst natural disaster in decades, has never needed the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) more.
As new fires threaten homes across America’s second-largest city, FEMA has deployed roughly 550 experts to help displaced residents find shelter, access aid and coordinate debris removal in neighborhoods reduced to ash. They’re staffing help centers and working with fire survivors, while more than 2,600 of their colleagues are still aiding in recovery efforts from last year’s hurricanes in North Carolina and Florida.