President Biden flew to Hawaii to inspect wildfire damage in Maui while keeping tabs on havoc spurred by Tropical Storm Hilary in California.
President Biden flew to Hawaii on Monday with FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell to inspect wildfire damage in Maui while also keeping tabs on havoc spurred by Tropical Storm Hilary in Southern California and another set of fires that destroyed 200 homes in Washington state.Biden planned to name Bob Fenton, a veteran FEMA official, to serve as a long-term recovery leader for Maui, where more than 100 people died and hundreds more are unaccounted for.
The federal government has more than 1,000 people in Maui, including 450 working on search and rescue. The administration has also committed to spend at least $8.6 million to help individual families with rent and other needs. Biden, who had been vacationing in Lake Tahoe, directed the Coast Guard to station aircraft in the region before the storm in case they were needed for search and rescue. Teams of federal disaster workers were also dispatched to the state as well as to Nevada and Arizona.
The agency sent additional teams to help state and tribal leaders, and to provide communications and technical support. The agency said it had supplies in place before the storm at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside.
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