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FEMA JIC editing, New York harbor

FEMA JIC editing, New York harbor

Photographers of the Broadcast and Photography Unit of FEMA edit video at the JFO in Queens, NY. FEMA is working with state and local officials to assist residents impacted by Hurricane Sandy. (Chris Kleponis/ ... More

Volunteers hand out cleaning supplies to clean up after

Volunteers hand out cleaning supplies to clean up after

Volunteers hand out cleaning supplies to clean up after Tropical Storm Sandy damaged Breezy Point, NY, November 21, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state local and tribal governme... More

The boardwalk at Magnolia Blvd. in Long Beach, N.Y.,

The boardwalk at Magnolia Blvd. in Long Beach, N.Y.,

The boardwalk at Magnolia Blvd. in Long Beach, N.Y., awaits repair after being damaged by Tropical Storm Sandy, Nov. 23, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state local and tribal gov... More

Cathy Jennings (FEMA Individual Assistance, Surge Capacity

Cathy Jennings (FEMA Individual Assistance, Surge Capacity

Cathy Jennings (FEMA Individual Assistance, Surge Capacity Force) assists a survivor of Tropical Storm Sandy fill out her application for assistance after being affected by by Tropical Storm Sandy, November 24,... More

Trees along house numbers 49 and 51 Locust Street in

Trees along house numbers 49 and 51 Locust Street in

Trees along house numbers 49 and 51 Locust Street in Garden City, NY await cleanup after falling from winds from Tropical Storm Sandy by Tropical Storm Sandy, Nov. 24, 2012. FEMA is working with various partner... More

Workers finish insulating a recently installed portable

Workers finish insulating a recently installed portable

Workers finish insulating a recently installed portable water heater to provide heat and hot water to 2946-50 W. 23rd St. in Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 25, 2012, after flooding caused by Hurricane Sandy destroyed the... More

This is the SBA workspace in the Joint Field Office

This is the SBA workspace in the Joint Field Office

This is the SBA workspace in the Joint Field Office in Forest Hills, N.Y., Nov. 27, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state local and tribal governments, voluntary faith-based and c... More

A loader operator maintains one of several piles of

A loader operator maintains one of several piles of

A loader operator maintains one of several piles of vegetative debris from Hurricane Sandy at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, NY, Nov. 28, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state l... More

Refuse in Queens, NY, New York harbor

Refuse in Queens, NY, New York harbor

Piles of sand and refuse from Hurricane Sandy is stored in Queens, N.Y., Nov. 30, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state local and tribal governments, voluntary faith-based and com... More

Workmen repair a gas line at B219 Street and Breezy

Workmen repair a gas line at B219 Street and Breezy

Workmen repair a gas line at B219 Street and Breezy Point Blvd. in Breezy Point, N.Y., after it was damaged by Hurricane Sandy, Nov.30, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state loca... More

Refuse in Breezy Point, NY, New York harbor

Refuse in Breezy Point, NY, New York harbor

Electrical wiring and gas piping removed from a home damaged by Hurricane Sandy placed on the curbside with other refuse for collection in Breezy Point, N.Y., Nov. 30, 2012. FEMA is working with various partner... More

Piles of sand and refuse from Hurricane Sandy is stored

Piles of sand and refuse from Hurricane Sandy is stored

Piles of sand and refuse from Hurricane Sandy is stored in Queens, N.Y., Nov. 30, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state local and tribal governments, voluntary faith-based and com... More

FEMA Applicant Services Program specialist Nidsa Vega

FEMA Applicant Services Program specialist Nidsa Vega

FEMA Applicant Services Program specialist Nidsa Vega (left) helps Hurricane Sandy survivors Esther Filsaine (second left), Euchline Filsaine (second right) and Jean Filsaine (right) apply for assistance at the... More

Red Cross volunteer J.J. Finn places food in the vehicle

Red Cross volunteer J.J. Finn places food in the vehicle

Red Cross volunteer J.J. Finn places food in the vehicle of a survivor of Hurricane Sandy in Stoney Point, N.Y., December 1, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state local and tribal... More

FEMA provides a telephone registration desk for survivors

FEMA provides a telephone registration desk for survivors

FEMA provides a telephone registration desk for survivors of Hurricane Sandy at the FEMA Disaster Recovery Center set up in a minor league baseball stadium in Pomona, N.Y., Dec. 1, 2012. FEMA is working with va... More

People from a variety of organizations assist survivors

People from a variety of organizations assist survivors

People from a variety of organizations assist survivors of Hurricane Sandy at the FEMA Call Center in the Joint Field Office in Forest Hills, N.Y., Dec. 2, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including ... More

Ozzie Cruz, New York MTA customer service trainer,

Ozzie Cruz, New York MTA customer service trainer,

Ozzie Cruz, New York MTA customer service trainer, conducts a training seminar on riding the New York City transit system at the FEMA Joint Field Office in Forest Hills, N.Y., Dec. 5, 2012. FEMA is working with... More

FEMA Deputy AECR CR Field Ops Julius Gibbons speaks

FEMA Deputy AECR CR Field Ops Julius Gibbons speaks

FEMA Deputy AECR CR Field Ops Julius Gibbons speaks during a Community Relations Training Dec. 6, 2012 at the FEMA Joint Field Office in Forest Hills, N.Y. FEMA is working with various partners including federa... More

Maya Beridze (right) interprets Russian for Anna Goldshteyn

Maya Beridze (right) interprets Russian for Anna Goldshteyn

Maya Beridze (right) interprets Russian for Anna Goldshteyn (left) to Jessie Torres, FEMA Applicant Services program specialist (center) under a program in which FEMA brings in interpreters to assist non-Englis... More

A FEMA Surge Capacity Force lead by Kathy Cruso(left)

A FEMA Surge Capacity Force lead by Kathy Cruso(left)

A FEMA Surge Capacity Force lead by Kathy Cruso(left) begins to canvas Almond Street in Staten Island, NY looking for residents affected by Hurricane Sandy who might not have registered for assistance, Dec. 8, ... More

Pictured is the Community Relations section of the

Pictured is the Community Relations section of the

Pictured is the Community Relations section of the FEMA JFO in Forest Hills, N.Y., Dec. 12, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state local and tribal governments, voluntary faith-bas... More

Cleaning supplies being distributed by volunteers await

Cleaning supplies being distributed by volunteers await

Cleaning supplies being distributed by volunteers await pickup in Breezy Point, NY, November 21, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state local and tribal governments, voluntary fait... More

The boardwalk at Magnolia Boulevard in Long Beach,

The boardwalk at Magnolia Boulevard in Long Beach,

The boardwalk at Magnolia Boulevard in Long Beach, N.Y., awaits repair after being damaged by Tropical Storm Sandy, Nov. 23, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state local and tribal... More

Trees along house numbers 49 and 51 Locust Street in

Trees along house numbers 49 and 51 Locust Street in

Trees along house numbers 49 and 51 Locust Street in Garden City, N.Y., await cleanup after falling from winds from Tropical Storm Sandy by Tropical Storm Sandy, Nov. 24, 2012. FEMA is working with various part... More

FEMA DRC #44 in Seaford, NY awaits its daily arrival

FEMA DRC #44 in Seaford, NY awaits its daily arrival

FEMA DRC #44 in Seaford, NY awaits its daily arrival of survivors of Tropical Storm Sandy, Nov. 24, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state local and tribal governments, voluntary f... More

Workers finish insulating a recently installed portable

Workers finish insulating a recently installed portable

Workers finish insulating a recently installed portable water heater to provide heat and hot water to 2946-50 W. 23rd St. in Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 25, 2012, after flooding caused by Hurricane Sandy destroyed the... More

Edward Williams, Small Business Association (SBA) field

Edward Williams, Small Business Association (SBA) field

Edward Williams, Small Business Association (SBA) field operations specialist, (left) and Michael Peacock, SBA public affairs specialist confer in the SBA workspace in the FEMA Joint Field Office in Forest Hill... More

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers  begins to perform

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers begins to perform

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers begins to perform an Air Curtain Burning of over 77,000 cubic yards of vegetative debris, mostly tree branches downed by Hurricane Sandy at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, NY,... More

Workmen repair a gas line at B219 Street and Breezy

Workmen repair a gas line at B219 Street and Breezy

Workmen repair a gas line at B219 Street and Breezy Point Blvd. in Breezy Point, N.Y., after it was damaged by Hurricane Sandy, Nov. 30, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state loc... More

Refuse deposited near piles of sand and refuse from

Refuse deposited near piles of sand and refuse from

Refuse deposited near piles of sand and refuse from Hurricane Sandy stored in Queens, N.Y., Nov. 30, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state local and tribal governments, voluntary ... More

FEMA provides a telephone registration desk for survivors

FEMA provides a telephone registration desk for survivors

FEMA provides a telephone registration desk for survivors of Hurricane Sandy at the FEMA Disaster Recovery Center set up in a minor league baseball stadium in Pomona, N.Y., Dec. 1, 2012. FEMA is working with va... More

Red Cross volunteer Lionel Mathis places water in the

Red Cross volunteer Lionel Mathis places water in the

Red Cross volunteer Lionel Mathis places water in the vehicle of a survivor of Hurricane Sandy in Stoney Point, N.Y., Dec. 1, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state local and triba... More

FEMA Applicant Services Program specialist Nidsa Vega

FEMA Applicant Services Program specialist Nidsa Vega

FEMA Applicant Services Program specialist Nidsa Vega awaits the arrival of Hurricane Sandy survivors to apply for assistance at the FEMA Disaster Recovery Center in Piermont, N.Y., Dec. 1, 2012. FEMA is workin... More

People from a variety of organizations assist survivors

People from a variety of organizations assist survivors

People from a variety of organizations assist survivors of Hurricane Sandy at the FEMA Call Center in the Joint Field Office in Forest Hills, N.Y., Dec. 2, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including ... More

Ozzie Cruz, New York MTA customer service trainer,

Ozzie Cruz, New York MTA customer service trainer,

Ozzie Cruz, New York MTA customer service trainer, conducts a training seminar on riding the New York City transit system at the FEMA Joint Field Office in Forest Hills, N.Y., Dec. 5, 2012. FEMA is working with... More

FEMA Deputy AECR CR Field Ops Julius Gibbons speaks

FEMA Deputy AECR CR Field Ops Julius Gibbons speaks

FEMA Deputy AECR CR Field Ops Julius Gibbons speaks during a Community Relations Training Dec. 6, 2012 at the FEMA Joint Field Office in Forest Hills, N.Y. FEMA is working with various partners including federa... More

Maya Beridze (right) interprets Russian for Dalila

Maya Beridze (right) interprets Russian for Dalila

Maya Beridze (right) interprets Russian for Dalila Binder (left) to Jessie Torres, FEMA Applicant Services program specialist (center) under a program in which FEMA brings in interpreters to assist non-English ... More

FEMA Community Relations Specialists Kathy Cruso(rear)

FEMA Community Relations Specialists Kathy Cruso(rear)

FEMA Community Relations Specialists Kathy Cruso(rear) and Kirk Hunt(front) canvas Almond Street in Staten Island, NY looking for residents affected by Hurricane Sandy who might not have registered for assistan... More

This is the Community Relations section of the FEMA

This is the Community Relations section of the FEMA

This is the Community Relations section of the FEMA JFO in Forest Hills, N.Y., Dec. 12, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state local and tribal governments, voluntary faith-based a... More

Building materials damaged by Tropical Storm Sandy

Building materials damaged by Tropical Storm Sandy

Building materials damaged by Tropical Storm Sandy await removal from a building supply store in Breezy Point, NY, November 21, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state local and tri... More

Survivors of Tropical Storm Sandy file for assistance

Survivors of Tropical Storm Sandy file for assistance

Survivors of Tropical Storm Sandy file for assistance at the FEMA Disaster Recovery Center in Long Beach, N.Y., Nov. 23, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state local and tribal gov... More

One of several trees along house numbers 49 and 51

One of several trees along house numbers 49 and 51

One of several trees along house numbers 49 and 51 Locust Street in Garden City, N.Y., await cleanup after falling from winds from Tropical Storm Sandy by Tropical Storm Sandy, November 24, 2012. FEMA is workin... More

Cathy Jennings (FEMA Individual Assistance, Surge Capacity

Cathy Jennings (FEMA Individual Assistance, Surge Capacity

Cathy Jennings (FEMA Individual Assistance, Surge Capacity Force) awaits the first arrivals survivors of Tropical Storm Sandy at DRC#44 in Seaford, N.Y., Nov. 24, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners inc... More

A flier left by a FEMA CR Task Force sits on the table

A flier left by a FEMA CR Task Force sits on the table

A flier left by a FEMA CR Task Force sits on the table of Luiza Mozalevskaya of 3058 W. 24th St. in Brooklyn, N.Y. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state local and tribal governments, vo... More

Michael Peacock, Small Business Administration (SBA),

Michael Peacock, Small Business Administration (SBA),

Michael Peacock, Small Business Administration (SBA), public affairs specialist works at the FEMA Joint Field Office in Forest Hills, N.Y., Nov. 27, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal... More

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers  begins to perform

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers begins to perform

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers begins to perform an Air Curtain Burning of over 77,000 cubic yards of vegetative debris, mostly tree branches downed by Hurricane Sandy at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, N.Y... More

Workmen repair a gas line at B219 Street and Breezy

Workmen repair a gas line at B219 Street and Breezy

Workmen repair a gas line at B219 Street and Breezy Point Blvd. in Breezy Point, N.Y., after it was damaged by Hurricane Sandy, Nov.30, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state loca... More

Refuse deposited near piles of sand and refuse from

Refuse deposited near piles of sand and refuse from

Refuse deposited near piles of sand and refuse from Hurricane Sandy stored in Queens, N.Y., Nov. 30, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state local and tribal governments, voluntary ... More

Red Cross volunteers provide meals for survivors of

Red Cross volunteers provide meals for survivors of

Red Cross volunteers provide meals for survivors of Hurricane Sandy in Stoney Point, N.Y., Dec. 1, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state local and tribal governments, voluntary fa... More

FEMA Applicant Services Program specialist Miriam Zayas

FEMA Applicant Services Program specialist Miriam Zayas

FEMA Applicant Services Program specialist Miriam Zayas (right) helps Hurricane Sandy survivors Esther Filsaine (left), Jean Filsaine (second left) and Euchline Filsaine (second left) apply for assistance at th... More

People from a variety of organizations assist survivors

People from a variety of organizations assist survivors

People from a variety of organizations assist survivors of Hurricane Sandy at the FEMA Call Center in the Joint Field Office in Forest Hills, N.Y., Dec. 2, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including ... More

Ozzie Cruz, New York MTA customer service trainer,

Ozzie Cruz, New York MTA customer service trainer,

Ozzie Cruz, New York MTA customer service trainer, conducts a training seminar on riding the New York City transit system at the FEMA Joint Field Office in Forest Hills, N.Y., Dec. 5, 2012. FEMA is working with... More

FEMA Deputy AECR CR Field Ops Julius Gibbons speaks

FEMA Deputy AECR CR Field Ops Julius Gibbons speaks

FEMA Deputy AECR CR Field Ops Julius Gibbons speaks during a Community Relations Training Dec. 6, 2012 at the FEMA Joint Field Office in Forest Hills, N.Y. FEMA is working with various partners including federa... More

Maya Beridze (right) interprets Russian for Dalila

Maya Beridze (right) interprets Russian for Dalila

Maya Beridze (right) interprets Russian for Dalila Binder (left) to Jessie Torres, FEMA Applicant Services program specialist(center) under a program in which FEMA brings in interpreters to assist non-English s... More

FEMA Community Relations Specialists Kathy Cruso(left)

FEMA Community Relations Specialists Kathy Cruso(left)

FEMA Community Relations Specialists Kathy Cruso(left) and Kirk Hunt(right) canvas Almond Street in Staten Island, NY looking for residents affected by Hurricane Sandy who might not have registered for assistan... More

Construction workers repair a damaged gas line, destroyed

Construction workers repair a damaged gas line, destroyed

Construction workers repair a damaged gas line, destroyed by Tropical Storm Sandy in Breezy Point, NY, November 21, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state local and tribal governme... More

The boardwalk at Magnolia Boulevard in Long Beach,

The boardwalk at Magnolia Boulevard in Long Beach,

The boardwalk at Magnolia Boulevard in Long Beach, N.Y., awaits repair after being damaged by Tropical Storm Sandy, Nov. 23, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state local and tribal... More

FEMA Individual Assistance Specialists Novella Robinson

FEMA Individual Assistance Specialists Novella Robinson

FEMA Individual Assistance Specialists Novella Robinson (left) and Karen M. Jackson(right) confer before the daily opening of DRC#44, which was established to aid survivors of Tropical Stom Sandy in Seaford, N.... More

A FEMA CR Task Force prepares to reach out to residents

A FEMA CR Task Force prepares to reach out to residents

A FEMA CR Task Force prepares to reach out to residents at 2925 W. 28th St. in Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 25, 2012, after flooding caused by Hurricane Sandy damaged the building. FEMA is working with various partners... More

This is the  Small Business Administration (SBA) workspace

This is the Small Business Administration (SBA) workspace

This is the Small Business Administration (SBA) workspace Nov. 27, 2012, in the FEMA Joint Field Office (JFO) in Forest Hills, N.Y. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state local and trib... More

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers  begins to perform

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers begins to perform

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers begins to perform an Air Curtain Burning of over 77,000 cubic yards of vegetative debris, mostly tree branches downed by Hurricane Sandy at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, NY,... More

Workmen repair a gas line at B219 Street and Breezy

Workmen repair a gas line at B219 Street and Breezy

Workmen repair a gas line at B219 Street and Breezy Point Blvd. in Breezy Point, N.Y., after it was damaged by Hurricane Sandy, Nov. 30, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state loc... More

Red Cross volunteers provide meals for survivors of

Red Cross volunteers provide meals for survivors of

Red Cross volunteers provide meals for survivors of Hurricane Sandy in Stoney Point, N.Y., Dec. 1, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state local and tribal governments, voluntary fa... More

FEMA Applicant Services Program specialist Miriam Zayas

FEMA Applicant Services Program specialist Miriam Zayas

FEMA Applicant Services Program specialist Miriam Zayas (right) helps Hurricane Sandy survivors Euchline Filsaine (left), Jean Filsaine (second left) and Esther Filsaine (second right) apply for assistance at t... More

People from a variety of organizations assist survivors

People from a variety of organizations assist survivors

People from a variety of organizations assist survivors of Hurricane Sandy at the FEMA Call Center in the Joint Field Office in Forest Hills, N.Y., Dec. 2, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including ... More

Ozzie Cruz, New York MTA customer service trainer,

Ozzie Cruz, New York MTA customer service trainer,

Ozzie Cruz, New York MTA customer service trainer, conducts a training seminar on riding the New York City transit system at the FEMA Joint Field Office in Forest Hills, N.Y., Dec. 5, 2012. FEMA is working with... More

FEMA Deputy AECR CR Field Ops Julius Gibbons speaks

FEMA Deputy AECR CR Field Ops Julius Gibbons speaks

FEMA Deputy AECR CR Field Ops Julius Gibbons speaks during a Community Relations Training Dec. 6, 2012 at the FEMA Joint Field Office in Forest Hills, N.Y. FEMA is working with various partners including federa... More

Maya Beridze (right) interprets Russian for Dalila

Maya Beridze (right) interprets Russian for Dalila

Maya Beridze (right) interprets Russian for Dalila Binder (left) to Jessie Torres, FEMA Applicant Services program specialist(center) under a program in which FEMA brings in interpreters to assist non-English s... More

FEMA Community Relations Specialists canvas Almond

FEMA Community Relations Specialists canvas Almond

FEMA Community Relations Specialists canvas Almond Street in Staten Island, NY looking for residents affected by Hurricane Sandy who might not have registered for assistance, Dec. 8, 2012. FEMA is working with ... More

Volunteers remove material from homes damaged in Breezy

Volunteers remove material from homes damaged in Breezy

Volunteers remove material from homes damaged in Breezy Point, NY, November 21, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state local and tribal governments, voluntary faith-based and commu... More

Clothing donated to survivors of Tropical Storm Sandy

Clothing donated to survivors of Tropical Storm Sandy

Clothing donated to survivors of Tropical Storm Sandy awaits sorting at the FEMA Disaster Recovery Center in Long Beach, N.Y., Nov. 23, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state loca... More

FEMA team members staffing DRC#44 in Seaford, N.Y.,

FEMA team members staffing DRC#44 in Seaford, N.Y.,

FEMA team members staffing DRC#44 in Seaford, N.Y., pose for a photo before survivors of Tropical Storm Sandy arrive, Nov. 24, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state local and trib... More

A FEMA CR Task Force prepares to reach out to residents

A FEMA CR Task Force prepares to reach out to residents

A FEMA CR Task Force prepares to reach out to residents at 2925 W. 28th St. in Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 25, 2012, after flooding caused by Hurricane Sandy damaged the building. FEMA is working with various partners... More

Truckloads of vegetative debris arrives at Floyd Bennett

Truckloads of vegetative debris arrives at Floyd Bennett

Truckloads of vegetative debris arrives at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, NY, Nov. 28, 2012 to be burned in an air curtain by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nov. 28, 12. FEMA is working with various partne... More

FEMA Applicant Services Program specialist Miriam Zayas

FEMA Applicant Services Program specialist Miriam Zayas

FEMA Applicant Services Program specialist Miriam Zayas (center) helps Hurricane Sandy survivors Euchline Filsaine (left) and Jean Filsaine (right) apply for assistance at the FEMA Disaster Recovery Center in P... More

People from a variety of organizations assist survivors

People from a variety of organizations assist survivors

People from a variety of organizations assist survivors of Hurricane Sandy at the FEMA Call Center in the Joint Field Office in Forest Hills, N.Y., Dec. 2, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including ... More

Ozzie Cruz, New York MTA customer service trainer,

Ozzie Cruz, New York MTA customer service trainer,

Ozzie Cruz, New York MTA customer service trainer, conducts a training seminar on riding the New York City transit system at the FEMA Joint Field Office in Forest Hills, N.Y., Dec. 5, 2012. FEMA is working with... More

FEMA Assistant External Affairs Officer for Community

FEMA Assistant External Affairs Officer for Community

FEMA Assistant External Affairs Officer for Community Relations Merideth Parrish speaks during a Community Relations Training Dec. 6, 2012 at the FEMA Joint field office in Forest Hills, N.Y., Dec. 6, 2012. FEM... More

FEMA is working with various partners including federal,

FEMA is working with various partners including federal,

FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state local and tribal governments, voluntary faith-based and community-based organizations, along with the private sector, to assist residents impacted ... More

FEMA Community Relations Specialists speak to Sabino

FEMA Community Relations Specialists speak to Sabino

FEMA Community Relations Specialists speak to Sabino Mastrandrea while canvasing Almond Street in Staten Island, NY looking for residents affected by Hurricane Sandy who might not have registered for assistance... More

A gas meter on a home in Breezy Point, NY damaged by

A gas meter on a home in Breezy Point, NY damaged by

A gas meter on a home in Breezy Point, NY damaged by Tropical Storm Sandy waits repair November 21, 2012.FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state local and tribal governments, voluntary fa... More

Clothing donated to survivors of Tropical Storm Sandy

Clothing donated to survivors of Tropical Storm Sandy

Clothing donated to survivors of Tropical Storm Sandy gets sorting by volunteers at the FEMA Disaster Recovery Center in Long Beach, N.Y., Nov. 23, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal,... More

Marcia Guzman, FEMA Manager of DRC #44 in Seaford,

Marcia Guzman, FEMA Manager of DRC #44 in Seaford,

Marcia Guzman, FEMA Manager of DRC #44 in Seaford, N.Y., poses for a photo while awaiting the arrival of survivors of Tropical Storm Sandy, Nov. 24, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal... More

A FEMA CR Task Force prepares to reach out to residents

A FEMA CR Task Force prepares to reach out to residents

A FEMA CR Task Force prepares to reach out to residents at 2925 W. 28th St. in Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 25, 2012, after flooding caused by Hurricane Sandy damaged the building. FEMA is working with various partners... More

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers begin an Air Curtain

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers begin an Air Curtain

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers begin an Air Curtain Burning of over 77,000 cubic yards of vegetative debris, mostly tree branches downed by Hurricane Sandy at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 28, 2... More

FEMA Assistant External Affairs Officer for Community

FEMA Assistant External Affairs Officer for Community

FEMA Assistant External Affairs Officer for Community Relations Merideth Parrish speaks during a Community Relations Training Dec. 6, 2012, at the FEMA Joint field office in Forest Hills, N.Y., Dec. 6, 2012. FE... More

Marine Aphkhazava (left) interprets Georgian for Mzia

Marine Aphkhazava (left) interprets Georgian for Mzia

Marine Aphkhazava (left) interprets Georgian for Mzia Gogua (right) to Lorenzo Ogden, Jr. FEMA hazard mitigation specialist, Community Education and Outreach (center) under a program in which FEMA brings in int... More

FEMA Surge Capacity Force members Kathy Cruso(center)

FEMA Surge Capacity Force members Kathy Cruso(center)

FEMA Surge Capacity Force members Kathy Cruso(center) and Kirk Hunt(right) speak with Bill Knoop(left) while canvasing Almond Street in Staten Island, NY looking for residents affected by Hurricane Sandy who mi... More

FEMA Community Relations Specialist Bill Thrasher looks

FEMA Community Relations Specialist Bill Thrasher looks

FEMA Community Relations Specialist Bill Thrasher looks over debris from Tropical Storm Sandy in Breezy Point, NY, November 21, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state local and tri... More

Clothing donated to survivors of Tropical Storm Sandy

Clothing donated to survivors of Tropical Storm Sandy

Clothing donated to survivors of Tropical Storm Sandy gets sorting by volunteers at the FEMA Disaster Recovery Center in Long Beach, N.Y., Nov. 23, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal,... More

FEMA Individual Assistance member await survivors of

FEMA Individual Assistance member await survivors of

FEMA Individual Assistance member await survivors of Tropical Storm Sandy at DRC #44 in Seaford, N.Y., Nov. 24, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state local and tribal governments... More

A recently installed portable water heater provides

A recently installed portable water heater provides

A recently installed portable water heater provides heat and hot water to 2946-50 W. 23rd Street in Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 25, 2012, after flooding caused by Hurricane Sandy destroyed the building's boiler. FEMA ... More

Representatives from the Environmental Protection

Representatives from the Environmental Protection

Representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA), among others view the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as they perform an Air Curtain Burn of over 77,000 cubic yards of vegetative debris at Floyd Ben... More

FEMA Assistant External Affairs Officer for Community

FEMA Assistant External Affairs Officer for Community

FEMA Assistant External Affairs Officer for Community Relations Merideth Parrish speaks during a Community Relations Training Dec. 6, 2012, at the FEMA Joint field office in Forest Hills, N.Y., Dec. 6, 2012. FE... More

Under a FEMA funded program, workers clear debris from

Under a FEMA funded program, workers clear debris from

Under a FEMA funded program, workers clear debris from the sidewalk in Brooklyn, N.Y. on Dec. 8, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state local and tribal governments, voluntary fait... More

FEMA Community Relations Specialists Bill Thrasher(left)

FEMA Community Relations Specialists Bill Thrasher(left)

FEMA Community Relations Specialists Bill Thrasher(left) and Sarah Campbell survey homes in Breezy Point, N.Y., damaged by Tropical Storm Sandy, Nov. 21, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including fe... More

FEMA MCOV Operator Bob Babineau and FEMA DRC#44 Manager

FEMA MCOV Operator Bob Babineau and FEMA DRC#44 Manager

FEMA MCOV Operator Bob Babineau and FEMA DRC#44 Manager Marcia Guzman pose for a photo at the DRC in Seaford, N.Y., Nov. 24, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state local and tribal... More

A truckload of vegetative debris arrives at Floyd Bennett

A truckload of vegetative debris arrives at Floyd Bennett

A truckload of vegetative debris arrives at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, NY, Nov. 28, 2012, to be burned in an air curtain by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nov. 28, 12. FEMA is working with various part... More

Under a FEMA funded program, workers clear debris from

Under a FEMA funded program, workers clear debris from

Under a FEMA funded program, workers clear debris from the sidewalk in Brooklyn, N.Y. on December 8, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state local and tribal governments, voluntary ... More

FEMA Community Relations Specialist Bill Thrasher looks

FEMA Community Relations Specialist Bill Thrasher looks

FEMA Community Relations Specialist Bill Thrasher looks over debris from Tropical Storm Sandy in Breezy Point, N.Y., Nov. 21, 2012. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state local and triba... More

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