FEMA

Residents seeking federal disaster assistance now have a central place to go, following Wednesday’s opening of the Survivor Recovery Center at the Susupe Multipurpose Center.

As the CNMI begins long‑term recovery from Super Typhoon Sinlaku, Del. Kimberlyn King‑Hinds says one of the Commonwealth’s biggest challenges will be ensuring it has enough workers to rebuild damaged homes, ports, roads and critical infrastructure.

More than 700 FEMA and other federal responders are now deployed from agencies including the Department of War, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Agriculture as the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands continues recovery operations after Super Typhoon Sinlaku.

Damage from Super Typhoon Sinlaku is expected to reach into the hundreds of millions of dollars according to CNMI Del. Kimberlyn King‑Hinds.

FEMA officials are assessing widespread damage across the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands after Super Typhoon Sinlaku battered the islands for 72 hours from April 14 to 16, crippling water, power and communications systems.