FREE CONTENT: Following the destruction Monday of the first home in Pahoa to be hit by the advancing lava flow, one question is likely on the minds of many homeowners in the area. When will the state request federal assistance for individual homeowners and renters as a result of the June 27 lava flow? There are no specific benchmarks by which the state measures such a decision, explained Shelly Kunishige, spokeswoman for the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, which oversees Hawaii County Civil Defense. However, much depends on the amount of damage homeowners will experience in the coming weeks or months. “Usually, there is no official threshhold,” she said Tuesday. “There are indicators, and in the case of individual assistance, the state and county need to prove it’s beyond the combined resources of the county and state to help out individual homeowners.”
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 18:15:04 +0000
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