{"id":4030,"date":"2012-01-04T11:03:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T17:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=4030"},"modified":"2012-01-04T11:03:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T17:03:25","slug":"time-is-running-out-to-apply-for-wildfire-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/01\/04\/time-is-running-out-to-apply-for-wildfire-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Time is Running Out to Apply for Wildfire Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3701\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Amid the ruins of Bastrop, many new homes have already been built.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/12\/IMG_0132.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3701\" title=\"Rebuilding in Bastrop\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/12\/IMG_0132-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/12\/IMG_0132-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/12\/IMG_0132-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/12\/IMG_0132-220x165.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/12\/IMG_0132-138x103.jpg 138w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Photo by Andy Uhler\/KUT News<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amid the ruins of Bastrop, many new homes have already been built.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you are one of the thousands of people in dozens of counties in Texas affected by the Labor Day wildfires last year, time is short to register for disaster relief assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The deadline is Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge Texans who sustained any damage or property loss to register with FEMA, even if you have insurance or think you won\u2019t qualify for assistance,\u201d Federal Coordinating Officer Kevin L. Hannes of FEMA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fema.gov\/news\/newsrelease.fema?id=60136\">said in a release<\/a>. \u201cLet us review your case to see whether FEMA can help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Friday is also the deadline to apply for low-interest disaster loans for property damage from the U.S. Small Business Administration.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"related-content alignright\"><h4 class=\"related-header\">Related<\/h4><div class=\"links\"><h5>Posts<\/h5><ul><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2011\/12\/13\/after-the-fires-preparing-for-floods\/\">After the Fires, Preparing for Floods<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2011\/12\/21\/texas-wildfires-scattered-birds-to-the-wind\/\">Texas Wildfires Scattered Birds to the\u00a0Wind<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2011\/12\/23\/after-bastrop-fires-a-season-of-reflection-and-rebuilding\/\">After Bastrop Fires, a Season of Reflection and Rebuilding<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2011\/12\/27\/racing-to-salvage-millions-of-dead-trees-in-texas\/\">The Race to Salvage Millions of Dead Trees in\u00a0Texas<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"topics\"><h5>Topics<\/h5><p class=\"topic\"><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/119835727-60x60.jpg\" height=\"60\" width=\"60\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/topic\/drought\/\">Everything You Need to Know About the Texas Drought<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p>FEMA says that since the wildfires, &#8220;more than $13.3 million in grants has been approved for home repairs or replacement, rental assistance and other needs. Another $19.5 million in SBA low-interest disaster loans has been approved for 174 homes and businesses.<\/p>\n<p>More information is available at the website\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.disasterassistance.gov\/\">www.disasterassistance.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are one of the thousands of people in dozens of counties in Texas affected by the Labor Day wildfires last year, time is short to register for disaster relief assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The deadline is Friday. \u201cWe urge Texans who sustained any damage or property loss to register with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":3701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[97,61,85],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4030"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4035,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030\/revisions\/4035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}