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2/10/14 President Obama Signs SC Emergency Declaration

Flag of the state of South CarolinaThe text of the emergency declaration is below

President Obama Signs South Carolina Emergency Declaration

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Release date:
FEBRUARY 12, 2014
Release Number:
HQ-14-011

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced that federal emergency aid has been made available to the State of South Carolina to supplement state and local response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from a severe winter storm on February 10, 2014, and continuing.

The President’s action authorizes FEMA to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures, authorized under Title V of the Stafford Act, to save lives and to protect property and public health and safety, and to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in all counties of the State of South Carolina.

Specifically, FEMA is authorized to identify, mobilize, and provide at its discretion, equipment and resources necessary to alleviate the impacts of the emergency.  Emergency protective measures, limited to direct federal assistance, will be provided at 75 percent federal funding.

Joe M. Girot has been named as the Federal Coordinating Officer for federal response operations in the affected area.

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1 Comment

  1. February 14, 2014    

    ABC news reports at least 18 deaths and over 800,000 homes have been left without power due to the storm.

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