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FEMA Chief: Feds won't go 'when the cameras leave'

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 22nd

WASHINGTON (AP) - The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency says U.S. officials are "going neighborhood to neighborhood" to make sure Oklahoma gets the help it needs. FEMA's Craig Fugate promises in an interview that officials won't desert Oklahoma, saying "We don't leave here

FEMA Chief: Feds won't go 'when the cameras leave'

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 22nd

No new funds needed for Okla. tornado recovery

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 21st

By ANDREW TAYLORAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Top lawmakers and officials said Tuesday that the federal government has plenty of money on hand to pay for recovery efforts in the wake of the devastating tornado that struck Oklahoma. The government has more than $11 billion in its main disaster

Oklahoma Schools Hit By Tornado Had No Safe Rooms

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 21st

MOORE, Okla. (AP) - An emergency official says Oklahoma has reinforced tornado shelters in hundreds of schools across the state, but the two that were hit by this week's storms in suburban Oklahoma City did not have them. Albert Ashwood is director of the Oklahoma Department

Obama pledges urgent aid to Oklahoma town

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 21st

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama pledged urgent government help for Oklahoma Tuesday in the wake of "one of the most destructive" storms in the nation's history. "In an instant, neighborhoods were destroyed, dozens of people lost their lives, many more were injured," Obama said from the

Obama pledges urgent aid to Oklahoma town

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 21st

Tornadoes slam Plains, Midwest; 1 dead in Okla.

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 20th

By SEAN MURPHYAssociated Press SHAWNEE, Okla. (AP) - When Lindsay Carter heard on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighborhood, she gathered her belongings and fled. When she returned, there was little left of the community Carter had called home. Several tornadoes

Tornadoes level homes in Okla., 1 dead

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 19th

By SEAN MURPHYAssociated Press SHAWNEE, Okla. (AP) - Tornadoes ravaged portions of central Oklahoma on Sunday, reducing portions of a mobile home park to rubble and killing a 79-year-old man whose body was found out in the open. "You can see where there's absolutely nothing, then there are

Official: Va. driver likely had medical condition

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 19th

By Associated Press DAMASCUS, Va. (AP) - Authorities believe the driver who plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Virginia mountain town parade suffered from a medical condition and did not cause the crash intentionally, an emergency official said Sunday. Officials did not have a

Report: Feds' warnings about Sandy were confusing

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 15th

By SETH BORENSTEINAP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal weather forecasts for Superstorm Sandy were exceptionally accurate last fall, but the warnings themselves were confusing, an internal review found. The gigantic October storm lost tropical characteristics hours before landfall in New