SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom today announced that California has secured a Fire Management Assistance Grant (FMAG) from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to help ensure the availability of vital resources to Riverside County to assist with the costs of suppressing the Airport Fire.
The Airport Fire, which began Monday afternoon in Trabuco Canyon, has grown to 19,028 acres in unincorporated areas of Orange and Riverside counties, leading to the evacuation of thousands of people, and threatening more than 10,000 structures.
The FMAG, which is provided through the President’s Disaster Relief Fund on cost-share basis, will allow local, state and tribal agencies responding to the fire to apply for 75-percent reimbursement of their eligible fire suppression costs.
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