Media Invitation
This is a joint media advisory/invitation from the Joint Field Office that includes the Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management and FEMA.
Media
Contacts:
DHSEM Media
Line: (720) 423-2433
FEMA Region VIII
News Desk: (303) 235-4944
FEMA DR-4229-CO
News Desk: (303) 462-6236
- Media Roundtable for El Paso County Media/News Partners
- Wednesday, Sept. 23
- 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
- El Paso County Office of Emergency Management
- 3755 Mark Dabling Blvd
- Colorado Springs, CO 80907
- Parking/Entrance – South Side of Building
The Colorado Division of Homeland Security and
Emergency Management (DHSEM) and the FEMA would like to invite you to a Media Roundtable
on Wednesday, Sept. 23, in Colorado Springs.
The roundtable will provide us an
opportunity to learn how to best work together, through open conversation and shared
information, to meet the needs of our community.In addition DHSEM and FEMA program experts will provide an overview of assistance programs, highlighting program objectives and procedural steps at the local, state and federal levels.
Note:
Comments
made by program experts are for educational purposes only, and are not quotable.
Interviews will not be available on the day of the roundtable, but may
be scheduled for a future date.
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On July 16,
President Obama issued a disaster declaration for Baca, Elbert, El Paso,
Fremont, Logan, Morgan, Pueblo, Saguache, Sedgwick, Washington, and Yuma
counties, making state, county, and local governments, as well as certain
non-profit organizations, eligible to receive reimbursement for repairing
infrastructure damage caused by the storms, as well as the cost of responding
to them. On Aug. 12, Adams, Boulder, Park and Denver counties were added to the
declaration.
