{"id":1488,"date":"2011-09-06T11:03:31","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T15:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2011-09-06T11:44:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T15:44:58","slug":"four-nh-counties-qualify-for-fema-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/09\/06\/four-nh-counties-qualify-for-fema-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Four NH Counties Qualify For FEMA Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A big piece of news broke over Labor Day weekend: President Obama has approved FEMA aid for four New Hampshire counties.\u00a0 <a title=\"Obama Approves Federal Aid for Storm Damage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nhpr.org\/obama-approves-federal-aid-storm-damage\" target=\"_blank\">As NHPR&#8217;s Chris Jensen reported<\/a>, Merrimack, Carroll, Grafton and Coos Counties were damaged enough by Tropical Storm Irene to qualify for federal help,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0\u201c&#8217;The state and communities in those four counties are now eligible for assistance to cover<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1489\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Following President Obama's disaster declaration, a large swath of New Hampshire now qualifies for FEMA aid.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/09\/6103704686_2b714a85bb.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1489\" title=\"Trees On Wires, Manchester\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/09\/6103704686_2b714a85bb-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/09\/6103704686_2b714a85bb-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/09\/6103704686_2b714a85bb-220x165.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/09\/6103704686_2b714a85bb-138x103.jpg 138w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/09\/6103704686_2b714a85bb.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Jonathan Lynch \/ NHPR<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Following President Obama&#39;s disaster declaration, a large swath of New Hampshire now qualifies for FEMA aid.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>emergency response operations and repair costs, and funds for mitigation to help prevent future flooding,&#8217; according to a news release from Gov. John Lynch\u2019s office..<\/p>\n<p>A request that help for individuals is still under review by Federal Emergency Management Agency teams.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As StateImpact reported last week, we&#8217;ll probably get final aid numbers in a couple of months.\u00a0 You can learn more about how states apply for, and ultimately get, FEMA aid <a title=\"How Do States Get FEMA Disaster Relief Money After Irene?\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/08\/31\/how-do-states-get-fema-disaster-relief-money-after-irene\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A big piece of news broke over Labor Day weekend: President Obama has approved FEMA aid for four New Hampshire counties.\u00a0 As NHPR&#8217;s Chris Jensen reported, Merrimack, Carroll, Grafton and Coos Counties were damaged enough by Tropical Storm Irene to qualify for federal help, \u00a0\u201c&#8217;The state and communities in those four counties are now eligible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[157,163,507,511,506,156,512,510],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}