Arizona towns fight for federal disaster funding after deadly flooding

Arizona towns fight for federal disaster funding after deadly flooding

Late last week, officials with Arizona's Department of Emergency and Military Affairs (DEMA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) were back in Gila County, meeting with state and local leaders to reassess damage created by deadly flooding in September and October last year.Late last year, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs ' office announced that FEMA had denied their request for a Major Disaster Declaration, which would have provided cr…