Local Government Finds FEMA Unresponsive

From CNN: ‘We’ve been ghosted by FEMA’: Officials across country say they can’t get answers on critical funding

“As hurricane season bears down, a new layer of uncertainty is spreading through the disaster response system: a wall of silence from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that’s leaving officials from across the country scrambling for answers.

“We’ve been ghosted by FEMA,” Robert Wike Graham, deputy director of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Emergency Management, told CNN, describing repeated, unanswered requests for information on vital emergency preparedness funding for his North Carolina community.

In Wyoming, where more than 90 percent of the state’s emergency management budget comes from the federal government, officials say their requests for clarity on emergency management funds also have gone unanswered. rom Cnn: ‘We’ve been ghosted by FEMA’: Officials across country say they can’t get answers on critical funding.”

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