DeSantis Responds to Claims FEMA Can Keep People From Their Homes

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A page on FEMA’s website says the federal agency ‘cannot seize your property or land’ after a natural disaster.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday responded to claims on social media suggesting that federal officials will not allow residents back in their homes after Hurricane Milton, which is now a Category 1 storm and is expected to move east over the Atlantic Ocean later Thursday.

The governor denied those claims, saying that his administration is in charge of the hurricane response, not the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). It’s not clear where those rumors originated.

“We live in an era where if you put out crap online, you can get a lot of people to share it and you can monetize that. That’s just the way it is,” DeSantis told the news conference, adding that “in the state of Florida none of that stuff would ever fly.”

“FEMA is not leading this show, we are leading this show here in the state of Florida,“ he said. ”We’re marshaling whatever assets are available to us, we’re leveraging that.”

DeSantis said that there will not “be anything where FEMA is ever going to be able to keep you from your home,” before adding a word of caution.

“Be careful about the nonsense that gets circulated, and just know that the more titillating it is, the more likely somebody is making money off it,” he said. Those people don’t care “about the well-being and safety of the people that are actually in the eye of this storm, it’s all just trying to monetize what they’re doing,” the governor continued.

A page on FEMA’s website says that the federal agency “cannot seize your property or land” after a natural disaster or after a person applies for federal disaster assistance.

“If the results of the inspection deem your home uninhabitable, that information is only used to determine the amount of FEMA assistance you may receive to make your home safe, sanitary and functional,” the FEMA page says.

By Jack Phillips

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