FEMA sets up disaster recovery center in Butler County

BUTLER COUNTY, Ky. – Some good news is here for Butler County residents who may have suffered damage during the April flooding.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, is set up at the Gasper River Association of Baptists, helping residents who took damage to their homes or businesses during the historic flooding that we saw.

Butler County was one of the hardest hit counties in the state, and recently, President Donald Trump approved individual assistance for Butler County residents.

At the site, FEMA will help you through the process of recovery and getting life back to normal. One Butler County official says FEMA will help you with the process and paperwork, which can sometimes be overwhelming.

“It’s not only the ones it has with the residences keeping with their businesses. It can even be with people that were, where we had a lot of roads that were cut off by water, and people were stranded in behind the waters. It’s even for those people to then come in to the DRC, bringing in all their information, and FEMA is here to sit down with them and go through all the criteria and help them fill out the right documentation for the help that they they can provide for them,” said Butler County judge executive Tim Flener.

There is no timeline for how long FEMA will be staying in Butler County, but Flener says if you received any damage from the floods this month, you can stop by and see how they can help.