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FEMA helps residents impacted by 2023 storms in Metro Detroit

Agency provides grants to cover costs of home repairs from disasters for qualified families

People living in Gibraltar are still dealing with the mess left behind by a string of violent storms last August.

Uprooted trees, a crushed car, and damaged homes are just some of the problems residents woke up to after the tornado sirens stopped blaring.

The same storm caused problems for people living in multiple counties across lower Michigan. FEMA teams are visiting homes in Lansing and Gibraltar on Friday (Feb. 23) and Grand Rapids on Saturday.

The agency provides grants to cover the costs of home repairs from disasters for qualified families.

“In this case, they probably already had made the repairs, so they have their receipts of the damages that they’ve made, and we can reimburse them for those repairs,” said Larissa Hale, media relations specialist for FEMA.

Crews went door to door to point people in the right direction and at least start the process.

“Following up to see if they have registered if they haven’t, we can help them register right now, or we can have them call the 1-800 number, or they can go visit one of the disaster recovery centers we just opened we have one that opened in Ingham county as well as Macomb county,” Hale said.

Hale said anybody living in Kent, Livingston, Ionia, Eaton, Macomb, Monroe, and Oakland counties that had damages from the Aug. 24-26 storms could register for disaster assistance.

To connect and learn more about starting the registration process, call 1-800-621-3362.

Read: Michigan renters impacted by August storms can apply for FEMA assistance


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