The City of Columbia said in conjunction with Richland County, South Carolina Emergency Management Division and FEMA there will be a crews performing damage assessments throughout the city.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency can meet immediate needs but does not have enough funding to make it through the hurricane season, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told reporters Wednesday.
SC Highway Patrol is investigating two separate fatal collisions that both happened on I-77 Wednesday night.
Collection boxes will be stationed around different locations around Columbia (Richland County).
More than half of Dominion Energy customers in Saluda County are still without power as of Wednesday afternoon.
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“It was absolutely amazing, and just incredible. But then it was also hard too, because we knew somebody was coming to get us, and it was just sad to think of all we were leaving behind, and two it was just a vacation for us, but these people lost everything,” says Wanda Hein.
Columbia Police Chief W. H. ‘Skip’ Holbrook has announced that two people have been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a Keenan High School student during the Summer.
Newberry County Sheriff Lee Foster, and Public Safety Director Tommy Long is establishing a curfew starting on Wednesday, say officials.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) personnel, along with the Richland County Emergency Management Division (RCEMD) will begin “window” tours Thursday, Oct. 3, throughout the county’s 11 districts as part of damage assessment following Hurricane Helene.
