FEMA Extends Disaster Declaration to Camden County

The Federal Emergency Management Agency today (Wednesday 10) approved Governor Jay Nixon’s request to expand the federal major disaster declaration for Missouri to include assistance for local governments and nonprofit agencies in 37 counties, including Camden County, for the cost of responding to and recovering from the historic flooding that affected the state from December 23^rd 2015 to January 9^th. Damage assessment teams identified an estimated 41-million-dollars in damage to infrastructure and response expenses for the storms that also led to 16 deaths and destroyed or significantly damaged nearly one-thousand homes. On January 25^th, Nixon requested FEMA expand the disaster declaration that was granted on January 21^st…