WV and National Disaster News - October 23, 2023

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WEST VIRGINIA

Disaster Mitigation Funding

• WV Pre-Disaster Mitigation projects receive federal funding  (WBOY-TV)
• $200K awarded to local projects (The Inter-Mountain)

Hotline for Hazardous Fairmont Brine Site

• Officials mobilize hotline, website for Fairmont brine site response  (MetroNews-Radio)

• Full Scale Community Response Exercise Simulates Mass Casualty Incident  (West Virginia Public Broadcasting-Radio)

• Freeze Warning Tonight​ in Ohio and West Virginia  (WOWK-TV)

NATIONAL NEWS
 
Wildfire Recovery

• Maui County wants thousands of fire survivors to move out of hotels, live with host families (Hawaii News Now)
• Evacuees live nomadic life after Maui wildfire as housing shortage intensifies and tourists return (The Hawaii Tribune-Herald), related news: Honolulu Star-Advertiser 

 
Weather

• Hurricane Tammy wallops northeast Caribbean islands (AccuWeather)
• Winter forecast: A warmer North, wetter South because of El Nino, climate change (NPR)

• Central U.S. drought areas to see soaking from Hurricane Norma remnants (The Weather Channel) related news: AccuWeather 

Weather Resilience

• ​​Nearly $2 billion in available funding to increase climate resilience nationwide (Homeland Security Today)

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