Live on a boat? You may qualify for FEMA assistance after Hurricane Ian - WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando

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Survivors successful 1 of the 26 designated counties tin apply

ORLANDO, Fla. – If you unrecorded connected a vessel – and it was your superior residence earlier and during Hurricane Ian – and sustained hurricane damage, you whitethorn prime for national assistance, FEMA precocious announced.

FEMA said survivors surviving successful 1 of the 26 designated counties for national assistance are encouraged to apply. The Central Florida designated counties are Brevard, Flagler, Lake, Orange, Osceola, Polk, Seminole and Volusia.

The different counties successful Florida that suffice are Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Hendry, Highlands, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Monroe, Okeechobee, Palm Beach, Pasco, Pinellas, Putnam, Sarasota, and St. Johns.

Residents tin commencement their exertion astatine DisasterAssistance.gov, by visiting a Disaster Recovery Center oregon by calling the FEMA helpline astatine 800-621-3362, FEMA said. The enactment is unfastened each time from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.

The national bureau asked those who use to beryllium acceptable to supply the carnal and implicit code of the dock oregon marina and the gaffe oregon mooring number, if the vessel was not located connected backstage property.

FEMA said residents cannot usage a P.O. Box arsenic the superior address, but tin usage it arsenic a mailing address.

To find the closest Disaster Recovery Centers, sojourn the DRC locator or floridadisaster.org, oregon substance DRC on with your ZIP codification to 43362.

FEMA besides reminded each Florida residents successful affected counties they inactive person DRC’s unfastened for radical to conscionable face-to-face to find retired the presumption of their case, update their lawsuit oregon find retired if they are disposable for Temporary Housing Assistance oregon different programs that person been added to the declaration.

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