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FEMA Purchases Travel Trailers To House Hurricane Florence Victims
Editor's Note: This news item was retrieved and first published through The News & Observer's website.
KINGSTON, N.C. - The Raleigh News and Observer reports that recreational vehicles will provide temporary homes for hundreds of people whose houses were left uninhabitable by Hurricane Florence. Purchased by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), trailers and mobile homes will be loaned to people who can’t find a place to stay while their homes are being repaired. From the staging area in Kinston, the units will be moved to where they’re needed across North Carolina, mostly adjacent to houses that are being repaired, except in flood plains, where FEMA will put them in a mobile home park with concrete pads and utility hookups.
“The goal is to put you on your property,” Keith Acree, spokesman for the state Division of Emergency Management, told the News & Observer. “That way you can live and work and go to school in your community.”
According to the procurement solicitation posted by FEMA on Oct. 18, as many as 400 trailers could be purchased from local firms in the state of North Carolina under a Small Business Set-Aside. The notice specifies that the travel trailers and fifth wheel trailers offered for FEMA purchase should be “new, never used, nor have been lent or rented”, and sleep from 3 to 8 people.
The complete FEMA requirements can be read at FedBizOpps.Gov.
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