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FEMA Opens Disaster Recovery Centers

POSTED: Friday, November 4, 2005
UPDATED: 4:17 pm EST November 7, 2005

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has opened federal disaster-recovery centers in all the effected counties, and hundreds of thousands of people have already lined up to get help for problems caused by Hurricane Wilma.

More than 161,000 people have applied for assistance in Broward County alone.

To find the location of a FEMA Disaster Recovery Center in your area, click here (pdf file requires Adobe Reader).

In another development, FEMA said 60 travel trailers have been mobilized at staging areas around the state, ready to head to Broward as needed.

The agency also received approval to purchase 500 more travel trailers for hurricane-damaged Florida counties.

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