Hurricane Relief

CT residents received around $7 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to rebuild their homes after the flash flood on August 18. U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said the agency won’t be able to do the same for future disasters unless Congress acts soon.

As the South recovers from Hurricane Helene and prepares for Milton, a nonprofit medical supply company in New York is getting ready to help with relief efforts. WSHU’s Molly Ingram spoke with Danielle Butin, the founder of the Afya Foundation, about how they’ve helped divert perfectly good medical supplies from landfills for over 15 years.

Connecticut will send a search and rescue team to North Carolina to assist with recovery efforts following Hurricane Helene.

Two years after Hurricane Ida made landfall on Long Island, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced an additional $20 million in state funding to help homeowners rebuild.

Dr. Brenda Rivera-García is on the ground in Puerto Rico with a team providing humanitarian relief to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Fiona made landfall on Sunday.

Connecticut lawmakers could take up the Transportation and Climate Initiative. Expanding hurricane relief in New York, how one Yale student’s time in…