The Los Angeles County Fire Department hosted its Community Emergency Response Team training on Sunday, May 5, at Inglewood Fire Station 171, located at 141 W Regent Street. CERT training empowers community members with hands-on basic training in disaster and life-saving techniques if 9-1-1 is not immediately available.
For the second time this year, Congress’ inability to reach consensus on essential fiscal legislation has devolved into largely partisan bickering and literal, last-minute temporary financial band-aids.
On July 25, the federal government’s Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program ended for most states, leaving millions of Californians without the extra cash many of them had been relying on for months to make ends meet.
The U.S. Department of Labor announced additional incremental funding for a Disaster Recovery National Dislocated Worker Grant (DWG) to the California Department of Employment Development to assess workforce needs in response to wildfires that affected the state in October and December 2017.
Federal funding is also available on a cost-sharing basis for hazard mitigation measures statewide.