WV and National Disaster News - July 24, 2024

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WEST VIRGINIA

Disaster Recovery

• FEMA opens disaster recovery center for Wood and Roane counties (WTAP)

Emergency Medical Response

• Temporary solution to ambulance response times up and running in Wayne County (WOWK TV)
• Salem EMS to resume service next week (WBOY)

NATIONAL NEWS

Cloud IT Outage

• CrowdStrike outage is a wake-up call (Axios)

COVID

• Map Shows 17 States With 'Very High' Covid Rates (Newsweek)
• Why Covid-19 is spreading this summer (BBC News)

Disaster Recovery

• Iona Ranch (Florida) residents could lose their homes (WINK News 11)
• FEMA sending disaster assistance to Missouri counties affected by May storms (Ozarks First News)
• Texas County included in federal disaster declaration (Houston Herald)
• FEMA denies disaster relief for Southwest Michigan after May 7 tornadoes (MLive.com)

 
Weather

• Showers, storms to continue in Southeast, but will hammer 2 main areas (AccuWeather)
• Downpours, locally severe storms return to Midwest and Northeast (AccuWeather)
• Sunday was the hottest day ever recorded on Earth, scientists say (Washington Post)
• What defines a heat wave? The answer could decide where disaster dollars go. (Grist)
• You Can't Escape Climate Change, but in Some Areas, Risk Is Lower (Nerdwallet)

 
Wildfire

• Wildfire smoke descends across central US, causes 'unhealthy' air quality (AccuWeather)
• Threat of violence prompted brief lockdown at federal wildfire claims office in northern NM (Source NM)

 
Other

• ​Hydrothermal explosion leads to closure of parts of Yellowstone National Park (AccuWeather) 

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