WV and National Disaster News - August 1, 2024

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WEST VIRGINIA

NATIONAL RECALL - Check you Fridge!! --- More meats added to the Boar's Head listeria meat recall (USA Today) 

Disaster Recovery

• FEMA Reminds Renters with Flood Damage May Be Eligible for Federal Assistance (LEDE) 

• West Virginians eligible to receive cost-share funding to help with water for livestock affected by drought (WVVA)
• Orr's Farm Market and Orchard praying for rain as drought conditions persist (DC News Now)

Gas Outage Findings

• PSC staff find no systematic failure by West Virginia American Water in West Side gas outage (WV Watch) 

• Kanawha County holds mass casualty drills to prepare for emergencies (WCHS) 

• West Virginia Weather: Damaging Storms, Flash Flooding Threat Through Saturday (Country Herald)
• Mountain State faces an autumn forecast of extended heat, severe storms (Charleston Gazette-Mail)

NATIONAL NEWS

Disaster Response & Recovery

• 'Catastrophic flooding' forces water rescues in Vermont after 1-in-1,000-year rainfall event (AccuWeather)
• Vermont officials discuss response to two major floods this month (WAMC Public Radio), related news: WFFF News 44, WCAX News 3 and AP 
• Sanders working with FEMA to get aid for Vermont flood victims (WCAX News 3)
• "We'll pitch a tent": Englewood (Florida) family can't afford to rent trailer from FEMA (WFTX News 4) 

Power Outage

• Hundreds of Thousands Without Power in Four Midwest States (Newsweek) - Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas and Iowa all experienced strong storms and outages.  

• Rounds of severe thunderstorms may have damaging consequences in central US (AccuWeather)
• Tropical rainstorm in Caribbean may strengthen, impact Florida (AccuWeather)
• Unrelenting heat to keep US sweating during final month of summer (FOX Weather)

Wildfire

• Wildfires explode in Colorado, killing at least one person and forcing evacuations (NBC News – video)
• Denver-area wildfire turns deadly as California's Park Fire torches an area larger than Los Angeles (CNN), related news: AccuWeather, Denver Post, and KMGHNews 7 
• Clearwater Fire in northern Wyoming grows to more than 1,000 acres (Clearwater Tribune)
• All evacuations lowered for Gwen Fire in North Idaho (KXLY.com)
• See National Fire News for information on large active fires in the US.   

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