Jeremy Zedek
21:30 - 22:17
"One big nuance in there is the State of Alaska can pay for things like subsistence camps where, um, the federal programs cannot."
“One big nuance in there is the State of Alaska can pay for things like subsistence camps where, um, the federal programs cannot.”
- Speaker
- Jeremy Zedek
- Timestamp
- 21:30 – 22:17
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Tok
- Captured at
- August 24, 2026
From the transcript
Some of that assistance is on the federal side. There's the federal government— FEMA has an individual assistance program and a public assistance program as well, and it looks a lot like our our State of Alaska programs. One big nuance in there is the State of Alaska can pay for things like subsistence camps where, um, the federal programs cannot. So there's a little bit of things that we can pay for. We're going to request a joint preliminary damage assessment with FEMA and the federal government, and so we're going to have federal officials out here from FEMA and go and take a look at the damages that have occurred.
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