Anita Foster
Anita Foster
fire homes likely mostly ten
Ten homes are on fire and will mostly likely be destroyed.
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There are hundreds of thousands of people impacted and this will be a very slow moving recovery effort. We could be here three months from now.
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It looks like Houston and Dallas are going to be the sites for receiving long-term evacuees.
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We are going to start damage assessment this morning and decide how to help families determine whether it's safe to go back home.
anyone fraud
Anyone who perpetrates fraud ... we will prosecute.
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Residents often seek out our services in the winter after their heat has been shut off for not paying bills.
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My mother was out there with a garden hose. She lives in Arlington, near the Mansfield border. She's OK, but it's representative of what's been going on all afternoon.
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If people want to help the families affected by the flooding, the best way to do that is with financial contributions to the Red Cross. It's more efficient when we can purchase in bulk.
people safe
For now, it's a safe place for people to go who can't get back into their neighborhoods.