Gov. Mike DeWine: FEMA Is Unlikely To Come To East Palestine

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DEWINE: “Now, I know there has been a lot of questions about FEMA and calling in FEMA for aid. At this point, based on what FEMA has told us and continues to tell us, my chief of staff talked to them again this morning, we do not qualify for assistance. Although FEMA is synonymous with disaster support, they are most typically involved with disasters where there is tremendous home or property damage, tornadoes, flooding, hurricanes. That’s why we do not expect that FEMA will come to East Palestine. However, to make sure that if in the future — if in the future FEMA is ever needed, we want to preserve our rights to be able to ask them for help. So, to make sure that FEMA is ever needed in the future to help residents in regard to this crash, we’re going to preemptively file a document with FEMA to preserve our rights in case we need their assistance in the future.”