Kansas Governor Laura Kelly is seeking a major presidential disaster declaration after five days of rough weather last month.
Governor Kelly has officially sent a letter to the Federal Emergency Management Agency seeking federal assistance after fires, severe storms, high straight-line winds, flooding and winter weather hit the state between March 14-19. Locally, this includes significant grass fire activity March 14, including a roughly-five-mile-long burn scar from a grass fire that developed near Roads 160 and V-5 and ended near Roads 200 and X, charring hundreds of acres, destroying several structures, killing farm animals and narrowly missing the Lyon County Rural Water District 4 standpipe.
The governor’s request is to secure reimbursement funds through the federal Public Assistance Program, which offers cost-share money to repair or replaced damaged infrastructure like roads and bridges.
