Area residents can get tips and advice on how to make their homes more resistant to flood damage at community mitigation resiliency workshops.
FEMA flood mitigation specialists will be available to answer questions about home repair and resiliency, making disaster plans, the importance of flood insurance and the opportunity for attendees to locate their properties on the flood plain map.
Mitigation is an effort to reduce the loss of life and property damage by lessening the impact of disaster. The workshops will be held at the following locations and dates:
New Bern Fireman’s Museum
458 Hancock St.
New Bern, NC 28560
Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019 - from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Emergency Operations Center
1425-1477 X Way Road
Laurinburg, NC 28352
Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019 - from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Lumbee Tribe Boys & Girls Club
120 Youth Drive
Pembroke, NC 28372
Friday, Jan. 11, 2019 - from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Emergency Operations Center
38 Legend Dr.
Lumberton, NC 28358
Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019 - from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
For more information on North Carolina’s recovery from Hurricane Florence, visit ncdps.gov/Florence and FEMA.gov/Disaster/4393. Follow us on Twitter:
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