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An American Red Cross volunteer offers a lunch to a

An American Red Cross volunteer offers a lunch to a

An American Red Cross volunteer offers a lunch to a Hurricane Sandy survivor. FEMA works with volunteer agencies to coordinate recovery efforts. (Photo by FEMA/Tim Burkitt)

Federal Coordinating Officer (FCO) Mike Byrne meet

Federal Coordinating Officer (FCO) Mike Byrne meet

Federal Coordinating Officer (FCO) Mike Byrne meet DHS volunteers berthing on the TS Kennedy, a maritime academy training ship.A provision in the 2006 Post-Katrina Act authorized DHS to create a surge capacity ... More

Volunteers with faith-based organizations, private

Volunteers with faith-based organizations, private

Volunteers with faith-based organizations, private non-profit organizations,businesses, and citizens from across the country have come to Coney Island to help provide food, clothing, and cleaning supplies for s... More

FEMA MCOV's (Mobile Communcations Office Vehicles)

FEMA MCOV's (Mobile Communcations Office Vehicles)

FEMA MCOV's (Mobile Communcations Office Vehicles) provides communications for a mobile Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) in Staten Island to help those impacted by Hurricane Sandy. DRC's are used to register surv... More

FEMA Community Relations Specialists (CR) meet with

FEMA Community Relations Specialists (CR) meet with

FEMA Community Relations Specialists (CR) meet with Hurricane Sandy survivors to help them register for disaster assistance, and to answer questions about the application process. (FEMA/Tim Burkitt)

Michael Byrnes of the Small Business Administration

Michael Byrnes of the Small Business Administration

Michael Byrnes of the Small Business Administration (SBA) gathers information from a Hurricane Sandy survivor at a Disaster Recovery Center (DRC). This DRC opened Tuesday at 239 Fingerboard Rd, Staten Island, a... More

Community Relations Specialist  (CR) George Rogers,

Community Relations Specialist (CR) George Rogers,

Community Relations Specialist (CR) George Rogers, (left) checks on the needs of a Hurricane Sandy survivor. FEMA is providing disaster assistance to eligible residents impacted by the storm. (Photo by Tim Burkitt/FEMA)

Mountains of debris left from Hurricane Sandy are getting

Mountains of debris left from Hurricane Sandy are getting

Mountains of debris left from Hurricane Sandy are getting hauled away. FEMA is helping states impacted by Hurricane Sandy with disaster assistance funding. ( Photo by FEMA/Tim Burkitt)

Senior Disaster Case Manager Hans Asia of Catholic

Senior Disaster Case Manager Hans Asia of Catholic

Senior Disaster Case Manager Hans Asia of Catholic Charities helps a Hurricane Sandy survivor. Faith-based organizations help fill needs like food and clothing and work with FEMA to to find out where help is ne... More

Community Relations Teams (CR) continue to reach out

Community Relations Teams (CR) continue to reach out

Community Relations Teams (CR) continue to reach out to Hurricane Sandy survivors. FEMA is working with its state and local partners to provide assistance. (Photo by Tim Burkitt/FEMA)

Disaster Recovery Center Manager Patty Clarke helps

Disaster Recovery Center Manager Patty Clarke helps

Disaster Recovery Center Manager Patty Clarke helps a Hurricane Sandy survivor. This DRC opened today at 1976 Hylan Blvd., Staten Island, and is where residents impacted by Sandy can go to begin the registratio... More

Damaged homes and cars mark the path of Hurricane Sandy's

Damaged homes and cars mark the path of Hurricane Sandy's

Damaged homes and cars mark the path of Hurricane Sandy's flood waters. Impacted residents are recovering with help from neighbors, volunteers, and FEMA disaster assistance. (Photo byFEMA/Tim Burkitt)

Storm cleanup continuing in New York

Storm cleanup continuing in New York

Hurricane Sandy survivors watch as debris is picked up for disposal. FEMA is providing disaster assistance to eligible individuals and state local governments. (Photo byFEMA/Tim Burkitt)

Jerome M. Hauer, New York State Division of Homeland

Jerome M. Hauer, New York State Division of Homeland

Jerome M. Hauer, New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services Commissioner, Alexander Romanov, Director of Federal-State Russian Airmobile Rescue Service, Moscow, and Alexey Audeev, Deput... More

Community Relations Specialist Clark Galloway explains

Community Relations Specialist Clark Galloway explains

Community Relations Specialist Clark Galloway explains how to register for disaster assistance to a Hurricane Sandy survivor. Even more than two weeks after the storm, many residents impacted have not registere... More

Doug Craft talks to a customer at a local Costco about

Doug Craft talks to a customer at a local Costco about

Doug Craft talks to a customer at a local Costco about disaster assistance. Doug is in the Coast Guard and is a volunteer for the DHS Surge Capacity force, and is helping FEMA with community outreach for Hurric... More

Sheltering and Temporary Essential Power (STEP) Pilot Program working in Breezy Point

Sheltering and Temporary Essential Power (STEP) Pilot Program working ...

Inspectors evaluate damaged homes in Breezy Point for the STEP program. FEMA designed the Sheltering and Temporary Essential Power (STEP) Pilot Program to assist state, local and Tribal governments in performin... More

Repair of gas lines progressing at Breezy Point

Repair of gas lines progressing at Breezy Point

A worker digs out sand covering flooded gas lines in Breezy Point. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state, local and tribal governments, voluntary faith-based and community-based organiz... More

Jacob Riis Beach Park used as temporary debris site

Jacob Riis Beach Park used as temporary debris site

The beach walk is closed as heavy equipment and trucks handle storm debris from Breezy Point. The U.S Army Corps of Engineers coordinates debris removal operations, and FEMA helps fund it through the public ass... More

New York City rapid assessment team working Breezy Point

New York City rapid assessment team working Breezy Point

A New York City rapid assessment team inspects a home in Breezy Point. FEMA designed in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Sandy the Sheltering and Temporary Essential Power (STEP) Pilot Program to assist Sta... 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

Major infrastructure damage on Staten Island

Major infrastructure damage on Staten Island

This pier was one of many heavily damaged from Hurricane Sandy. The FEMA public assistance program can help eligible local governments with funding for repairs. FEMA is working with various partners including ... More

Oil being pumped out of stranded tanker

Oil being pumped out of stranded tanker

A tanker ship stranded on shore by Hurricane Sandy is having the fuel and oil pumped out to prevent a spill. The U.S. Coast Guard is monitoring the operation. FEMA is working with various partners including fed... More

Damaged boats swept onshore by Hurricane Sandy on Staten Island

Damaged boats swept onshore by Hurricane Sandy on Staten Island

These boats and dozens more were swept onshore by Hurricane Sandy. FEMA is working with various partners including federal, state, local and tribal governments, voluntary faith-based and community –based organi... 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

An American Red Cross truck moves through damaged areas

An American Red Cross truck moves through damaged areas

An American Red Cross truck moves through damaged areas passing out meals Hurricane Sandy survivors. FEMA works with volunteer agencies to coordinate recovery efforts. (Photo by FEMA/Tim Burkitt)

Federal Coordinating Officer (FCO) Mike Byrne meets

Federal Coordinating Officer (FCO) Mike Byrne meets

Federal Coordinating Officer (FCO) Mike Byrne meets with DHS volunteers berthing on the TS Kennedy, a maritime academy training ship. A provision in the 2006 Post-Katrina Act authorized DHS to create a surge ca... More

FEMA personnel work to complete another Disaster Recovery

FEMA personnel work to complete another Disaster Recovery

FEMA personnel work to complete another Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) in Staten Island to help survivors impacted by Hurricane Sandy. DRC's are used to register survivors for disaster assistance in person, and... More

These houses were swept blocks away from where they

These houses were swept blocks away from where they

These houses were swept blocks away from where they were built by the floodwaters from Hurricane Sandy. FEMA and its state and local partners are providing disaster assistance to survivors. (FEMA/Tim Burkitt)

A Small Business Administration (SBA) specialist helps

A Small Business Administration (SBA) specialist helps

A Small Business Administration (SBA) specialist helps a survivor with the application process at a Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) in Staten Island. The SBA helps with low interest disaster loans for businesses... More

FEMA Community Relations Specialists meet with Hurricane

FEMA Community Relations Specialists meet with Hurricane

FEMA Community Relations Specialists meet with Hurricane Sandy survivors to help them register for disaster assistance, and to answer questions about the application process. (FEMA/Tim Burkitt)

Trena Johnson of the American Red Cross helps a Hurricane

Trena Johnson of the American Red Cross helps a Hurricane

Trena Johnson of the American Red Cross helps a Hurricane Sandy survivor. Faith-based and volunteer organizations help fill needs like shelters,food and clothing, and work with FEMA to to find out where help is... More

FEMA Applicant Program Service Specialist Frances

FEMA Applicant Program Service Specialist Frances

FEMA Applicant Program Service Specialist Frances Haynes-Herrera helps console a Hurricane Sandy survivor. This disaster recovery center opened today at 239 Fingerboard Road, Staten Island, and is where residen... More

Mountains of debris left from Hurricane Sandy are getting

Mountains of debris left from Hurricane Sandy are getting

Mountains of debris left from Hurricane Sandy are getting hauled away. FEMA is helping states impacted by Hurricane Sandy with disaster assistance funding (Photo by FEMA/Tim Burkitt)

FEMA Community Relations Specialist (CR) Malik Riaz

FEMA Community Relations Specialist (CR) Malik Riaz

FEMA Community Relations Specialist (CR) Malik Riaz leaves registration information at a home in Staten Island. FEMA is providing disaster assistance to eligible residents impacted by the storm. (Photo by Tim B... More

Dzung Luu of the Small Business Administration listens

Dzung Luu of the Small Business Administration listens

Dzung Luu of the Small Business Administration listens to concerns from a Hurricane Sandy survivor at a Disaster Recovery Center . This DRC opened today at 1976 Hylan Blvd., Staten Island, and is where resident... More

This home was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy's flood

This home was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy's flood

This home was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy's flood water. FEMA is providing disaster assistance to eligible residents impacted by the storm. (Photo by Tim Burkitt/FEMA)

Felix Vasquez of Staten Island is passing out blankets

Felix Vasquez of Staten Island is passing out blankets

Felix Vasquez of Staten Island is passing out blankets and cleaning supplies donated by the Salvation Army to neighbors that have lost everything due to Sandy. FEMA encourages volunteerism like this to help wit... More

Alexey Audeev, Deputy Director of International Cooperation

Alexey Audeev, Deputy Director of International Cooperation

Alexey Audeev, Deputy Director of International Cooperation Department EMERCOM of Moscow, Russia, tours FEMA's DR-4085 Joint Field Office (JFO) in Queens, New York. Following the onslaught of Hurricane Sandy, F... More

A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers specialist watches a

A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers specialist watches a

A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers specialist watches a crane load a barge with storm debris. Staten Island debris from Sandy is brought to the city landfill for transfer to barges, then up the Hudson river to the ... More

Community Relations Specialists Dexter Polistock (left)

Community Relations Specialists Dexter Polistock (left)

Community Relations Specialists Dexter Polistock (left) and Jerry Piotrowski talk to customers at a local Costco about disaster assistance. (FEMA/Tim Burkitt)

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

DHS volunteers await the next training session in the

DHS volunteers await the next training session in the

DHS volunteers await the next training session in the crews mess of the TS Kennedy, a maritime academy training ship.A provision in the 2006 Post-Katrina Act authorized DHS to create a surge capacity force (SCF... More

Red Cross personnel help survivors at a Disaster Recovery

Red Cross personnel help survivors at a Disaster Recovery

Red Cross personnel help survivors at a Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) in Staten Island to help those impacted by Hurricane Sandy. FEMA and the SBA are also at the DRC to help with disaster assistance registrat... More

A FEMA Community Relations Specialists (CR) talks with

A FEMA Community Relations Specialists (CR) talks with

A FEMA Community Relations Specialists (CR) talks with a Hurricane Sandy survivor in Staten Island. FEMA CR Specialists help residents register for disaster assistance, and answer questions about the applicatio... More

FEMA Community Relations Specialists (CR) pass out

FEMA Community Relations Specialists (CR) pass out

FEMA Community Relations Specialists (CR) pass out registration information flyers to Hurricane Sandy survivors. FEMA encourages all residents impacted by Sandy to register for assistance. (FEMA/Tim Burkitt)

A FEMA mobile Disaster Recovery Center has a phone

A FEMA mobile Disaster Recovery Center has a phone

A FEMA mobile Disaster Recovery Center has a phone bank to register Hurricane Sandy survivors. This DRC is located on Father Capodonno Blvd. in Staten Island. (Photo by Tim Burkitt/FEMA)

FEMA Community Relations Teams(CR) continue to reach

FEMA Community Relations Teams(CR) continue to reach

FEMA Community Relations Teams(CR) continue to reach out to Hurricane Sandy survivors. Encouraging residents to register for assistance is one of the functions of CR. (Photo by Tim Burkitt/FEMA)

Part of this street was washed away by Hurricane sandy.

Part of this street was washed away by Hurricane sandy.

Part of this street was washed away by Hurricane sandy. FEMA’s Public Assistance Grant Program reimburses eligible state and local governments, for eligible expenses incurred due to a disaster. Reimbursements c... More

The back of the flight jacket of Alexy Audeev, Deputy

The back of the flight jacket of Alexy Audeev, Deputy

The back of the flight jacket of Alexy Audeev, Deputy Director of International Cooperation Department EMERCOM of Russian, who toured FEMA's DR-4085 Joint Field Office (JFO) in Queens, New York. Following the o... More

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel oversee debris

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel oversee debris

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel oversee debris removal from Staten Island. Trucks transport Sandy storm debris from the city to the city landfill for transfer to barges, then up the Hudson river to the A... More

Joe Olivarez talks to a customer at a local Costco

Joe Olivarez talks to a customer at a local Costco

Joe Olivarez talks to a customer at a local Costco about disaster assistance. Joe works for the Transportation Security Administration and is volunteering to help Hurricane Sandy survivors through the DHS Surge... 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

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