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Alaska National Guardsmen of Joint Task Force-Bethel wide tempest debris from a boardwalk successful Newtok, Alaska arsenic portion of Operation Merbok Response. (Alaska National Guard photograph by 1st Lt. Balinda O'Neal)

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - All with damages from the 2022 September West Coast tempest are encouraged to apply.

The Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (DHS&EM) is accepting applications for the State Individual Family Grant (IFG) and Temporary Housing programs until Tuesday.

The programme is designed to assistance individuals and families who suffered damages and losses to their idiosyncratic and existent spot during the 2022 September West Coast storm, besides known arsenic the remnants of Typhoon Merbok.

Disaster survivors tin registry for the State Individual Assistance programme by visiting the Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management webpage astatine Ready.Alaska.Gov.

Telephone registration is besides disposable astatine 1-844-445-7131.

"It is captious that individuals and families successful the affected country registry for State of Alaska Individual Assistance and different national assistance earlier the deadlines," said Director Bryan Fisher, Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. "If a nonmigratory has property, similar a food camp, but can't entree the spot to find damages, we promote them to commencement an application. We tin ever amend an exertion aft the authorities IA deadline, but we cannot commencement a caller one."

The 2022 September West Coast tempest impacted the autumn and question to food camps, and different distant areas utilized for subsistence purposes, whitethorn not person been possible.

Storm-related damages to structures and the nonaccomplishment of idiosyncratic spot astatine these locations whitethorn beryllium eligible for catastrophe betterment grants.

Residents of the Northwest Arctic Borough, Bering Strait Regional Education Attendance Area (REAA), Lower Yukon REAA, Lower Kuskokwim REAA, Pribilof REAA, and the Kashunamiut REAA, are eligible to use for State Individual Assistance.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy's declaration of Typhoon Merbok's catastrophe activated the state's Individual Assistance (IA) programme which is designed to assistance radical with damages and expenses related to the catastrophe event.

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