Category: Recovery
Town Hall on Hurricane Sally recovery effort
State Rep. Alex Andrade will host a Town Hall Meeting highlighting the Hurricane Sally Recovery effort. The informational meeting and Q & A will be…
County helps residents understand FEMA letter
Florida residents who applied for assistance from FEMA after sustaining damage from Hurricane Sally will receive a letter from FEMA in the mail or via…
FEMA hands out $7.5 million to Panhandle residents
PENSACOLA, Fla. – One week after becoming eligible for federal assistance for Hurricane Sally, 1,716 Florida individuals and households in Bay, Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa…
Officials search for ‘solutions’ for Bay Bridge dilemma
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Local and regional elected officials met Wednesday with representatives from the Florida Department of Transportation in an effort to determine how…
County asks residents to haul yard debris
With the possible approach of Hurricane Delta, Escambia County is focusing debris management collections in the low lying areas that are susceptible to flooding such…
FEMA sets up mobile sites today
FEMA will open mobile registration centers for Hurricane Sally survivors in Escambia, Okaloosa and Santa Rosa counties Saturday, Oct. 3. The centers, called Mobile Registration…
Official: Counties get Individual Assistance
As we reported earlier: Escambia County Receives FEMA Disaster Declaration for Individual Assistance Escambia County has received a FEMA Disaster Declaration for Individual Assistance….
Breaking: FEMA individual assistance approved
Sources have texted Inweekly that White House and FEMA have approved Individual Assistance for Escambia County. We expect the county and FEMA to make the…
ECAT announces route to south Santa Rosa
Beginning Monday, Oct. 5, ECAT will launch bus Route 20 to help transport passengers between Escambia County and the City of Gulf Breeze. The Pensacola…
Commissioners get an update on individual assistance
At today’s agenda review, Commissioner Doug Underhill asked his county administrator, “What is the public response to the fairly aggressive requests that we’ve had for…
BCC to discuss CARES today…again without documentation provided to the public
Escambia County Administrator Janice Gilley will discuss the “Escambia CARES Act Plan update” with the Board of County Commissioners. The following topics will be include….
Buzz: FEMA bullied county staff to downplay damage
Inweekly has heard from two independent sources that when FEMA inspectors traveled with Escambia and Santa Rosa staff to assess the damage caused by Hurricane…
DeSantis lets eviction moratorium expire
Pointing to a move by the federal government to halt evictions, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday let expire an executive order aimed at limiting evictions…
Gulf Power wants to disconnect customers
A week after the utility restored power to its 285,000 customers in Northwest Florida, Gulf Power has  joined other Florida utilities to fight a proposal before…
County estimates over $126 million in damage
Press release: County and city officials estimate over $126 million in damage to private property (single-family homes, multi-family homes, mobile homes and businesses) located in…
FEMA assistance coming or not
Sources have shared with Inweekly that the individual assistance program may not be activated for Escambia County because FEMA officials say the damage to our…
Alabama residents have received $11 million from FEMA
FEMA reports Hurricane Sally survivors in Baldwin, Escambia and Mobile counties have been approved for more than $11 million in federal disaster assistance in just…
Lewis Bear Co. hands out water in Warrington
The Lewis Bear Company is partnering with Anheuser-Busch, the American Red Cross, and Commissioner Lumon May to deliver thousands of cases of emergency drinking water…
Talking with Commissioner Fried
Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Nikki Fried on Sunday visited Escambia County to survey the hurricane damage She met with County Commissioner Lumon May at the…
FEMA funds iffy
On Sunday, Sept. 20, President Trump signed a Major Disaster Declaration for south Alabama. The following morning, residents of the Alabama counties of Escambia, Baldwin…


















