4,700 Escambia Residents Register For FEMA Help (With Registration Info)

May 13, 2014

As of Monday, 4,700 residents of Escambia County have registered for FEMA assistance.

FEMA opened Escambia County Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) Sunday at the Brownsville Community Center, 3100 West Desoto Street, Pensacola, where applicants may go with questions or for information about FEMA or other disaster assistance.

The hours of operations for the DRC are:

  • Sunday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
  • Monday – Saturday, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Project Outreach Site Changes

Project Outreach field teams are stationed at tents throughout Escambia County to provide information and to connect citizens with the appropriate agencies. The following sites remain open and will be operational Tuesday, May 13, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

  • Crescent Lake, 6105 Fairview Drive
  • Damascus Road Mission Baptist Church, 8198 Untreiner Avenue
  • Lake Charlene*, Corner of 6815 Kitty Hawk Circle – A FEMA Disaster Survivor Assistance Team (DSAT) will be on site in Lake Charlene from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
  • Legion Field, 1301 West Gregory Street

Additionally, FEMA Disaster Survivor Assistance Teams will be going door-to-door in the following impacted neighborhoods tomorrow between the hours of 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.:

  • Downtown area
  • Innerarity Point and Grand Lagoon areas
  • Tonbridge Circle area
  • Man o War Circle, Ashland Avenue and Ponderosa Drive
  • Lake Charlene Outreach Tent – Corner of 6815 Kitty Hawk Circle

Help for Renters

FEMA’s “Individual Assistance” is also available to renters and anyone who has lost personal belongings in the recent flood is encouraged to file a claim with FEMA.

Applicants may register at a Project Outreach Site, FEMA’s main “Disaster Recovery Center” at the Brownsville Community Center, 3100 West Desoto Street, or they can register by calling FEMA at (800) 621-3362 or TTY (800) 462-7585. If you use 711 or Video Relay Service (VRS), call (800) 621-3362. Operators are multilingual and calls are answered seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. CDT. You can register online at www.DisasterAssistance.gov or by smartphone or tablet at m.femagov.

An American Red Cross shelter is located at the Fricker Community Center, 900 North “F” Street, Pensacola, and is currently housing 59 people.  FEMA will be onsite from 6 to 9 p.m. today to register citizens for assistance.

Debris Removal

Escambia County will continue debris removal efforts and information on locations for pickup tomorrow will be provided as soon as it becomes available.

For more information on debris removal, please contact the Escambia County Solid Waste Management at (850) 937-2160 and for more information on obtaining FEMA or other assistance; call the Escambia County Citizens Information Line at (850) 471-6600.

Pictured: A Project Outreach tent on Bristol Park Road Saturday afternoon. NorthEscambia.com photo, click to enlarge.

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Written by William Reynolds · Filed Under News