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FEMA triples mobile homes in 4 Southeast Texas counties
FEMA has more than tripled the number of mobile homes for Hurricane Ike victims in four southeast Texas counties in the last week — raising the number from 18 to 62 — but officials say thousands more are still needed.
“The bottom line is that 62 is just an unsatisfactory number,” Orange Mayor William Brown Claybar said.
The 62 units reported by FEMA refers to mobile homes and park model trailers occupied as of Tuesday night in Jefferson, Orange, Hardin and Chambers counties.
After Ike hit the region on Sept. 13, flooding left thousands in southeast Texas with uninhabitable homes.
Orange County has requested 4,000 temporary housing units. And Jefferson County Judge Ron Walker has said at least 1,000 more may be needed in his county.
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By Will Turk
October 16, 2008 9:33 AM | Link to this
We have the compacity here at the Waco facility to build 50 FEMA units a week. Our units are built with sheet rock walls that do not contain formaldahyde. We also have units already built that could be shipped to South Texas. Its too bad that buearacracy always limits the effectivness of disaster relief. We could add employees who need work!