Naples is now home to a new FEMA Disaster Recovery Center (DRC), ready to help residents recover from Hurricane Milton. FOX 4 asked FEMA, why they’re in Collier County, when the hardest hit areas of the recent two hurricanes are so far north of here.
Watch Community Correspondent Austin Schargorodski’s report here…
FEMA opens Naples Recovery Center to assist people displaced by Hurricane Milton
A steady stream of people visited Thursday, meeting with FEMA and SBA agents to discuss their recovery needs. Sam Roberts said he came because the insulation and ducting under his house was flooded by storm surge just two years after losing his home to Hurricane Ian.
“If I can’t get it ripped out because it’s all full of water, it’s going to be unhealthy for me to stay there with the chance of black mold and things like that growing,” said Roberts.
Austin SchargorodskiThankfully, Roberts said coming to the DRC was a crucial step forward. “FEMA’s probably going to be enough to cover the insulation, what they gave me. But, if that runs out I could go to the SBA,” said Roberts.