DEARBORN (WWJ) A FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) Disaster Recovery Center has opened in Dearborn for home and business owners who suffered damage in the recent massive flooding.
The Center will be inside the Henry Ford Centennial Library on Michigan near Greenfield, just next door to Dearborn City Hall. It operates from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Sunday.
At the Center; you will be able to register for FEMA Assistance using the phone banks there, check the status of your application, meet with a FEMA applicant assistance representative, and obtain information from state agencies and voluntary organizations.
You will also be able to discuss U.S. Small Business Administration’s low-interest disaster loans for businesses, non-profits, homeowners, and renters—while receiving help with your application.
Information will be available on additional resources and how to reduce further damage.
The historic floods in late June, made worse by a second round of less severe flooding a couple weeks later, damaged more than 20,000 homes. Two deaths were blamed on the flood: a DTE worker who touched a power line in Detroit and an 87-year-old Dearborn man who drowned after falling into his flooded basement.
President Joe Biden approved Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s request for a Presidential Disaster Declaration in Wayne and Washtenaw Counties. This allows for additional federal aid to be available to residents who suffered damage.
More than seven inches rain fell on the area in less than a two-day period in late June.
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