WASHINGTON, July 21 -- Sen. Reverend Warnock issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA) joined eight of his Senate colleagues in urging (https://www.warnock.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Letter-to-FEMA-Regarding-Wildfire-Disasters-FMAGs-and-HMGP.pdf) the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to ensure that all communities receive the federal resources they need to prevent and respond to wildfires. An analysis (https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/democrats/2023/10/climate-exacerbated-wildfires-cost-the-u-s-between-394-to-893-billion-each-year-in-economic-costs-and-damages) conducted by the Joint Economic Committee found that the annual economic burden of wildfires on the U.S. econom...