Oregon Senators Demand Answers After FEMA Denies Emergency Funding for Major Wildfires

FEMA denies 2 of 5 grants to fight Oregon wildfires

The federal government approved funding for the Lower Dry Creek Fire, the Akawa Butte Fire and the Grasshopper Fire.

Oregon senators demand answers after FEMA denies emergency funding for major wildfires

Oregon Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley demand answers from FEMA after the agency denied critical wildfire management grants for two major state fires.

Trump administration denies emergency funding for 2 Oregon wildfires

After the agency’s denial of the federal assistance grants for the two fires, Oregon’s U.S. senators wrote to FEMA to express alarm and to argue that the decision represented “a...

MERKLEY, WYDEN PRESS FEMA ON DENIAL OF EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE

July 29, 2026 6:30 a.m.  Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden are demanding answers from the Federal Emergency Management Agency in response to the agency’s denial of Fire Management Assistance Grants for two wildfires in Oregon: the East Evans Creek Fire and Rowe Creek Fire Complex. A joint release said both fires were under Level 3 “Go Now” Evacuation at the time of the application, and the Rowe Creek Fire Complex was the largest …

Trump Overruled FEMA on Disaster Aid to Blue States

"President Donald Trump overruled his own agencies when he denied disaster aid for four Democratic-led states this month,” Politico reports.”Emails between state and federal officials obtained by POLITICO along with more than 150 pages of documents submitted to FEMA by three states