{"id":430116,"date":"2026-10-17T02:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T02:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/430116\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T02:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T02:36:11","slug":"desantis-requests-approval-for-major-disaster-declaration-after-hurricane-isaias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/430116\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis requests approval for major disaster declaration after Hurricane Isaias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, FL (WTXL) \u2014 Governor Ron DeSantis said Florida has requested approval for a major disaster declaration after Hurricane Isaias.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM) has submitted a request to President Donald Trump for support for communities across Northwest Florida.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis said the public assistance request covers Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Liberty, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Wakulla, Walton, and Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Watch DeSantis press conference from after Isaias made landfall in Florida:<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis: Nearly 450,000 without power after Hurricane Isaias<\/p>\n<p>Public Assistance makes federal funding available to state and local governments and certain nonprofit organizations to cover disaster response and recovery costs.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said once approved, eligible residents in designated counties will be able to apply to FEMA for assistance at DisasterAssistance.gov or by calling 800-621-3362.<\/p>\n<p>Want to see more local news? Visit the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTXL ABC 27 Website. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wtxlabc27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Instagram <\/a>and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abc27\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, FL (WTXL) \u2014 Governor Ron DeSantis said Florida has requested approval for a major disaster declaration after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[242,52820,509,30922,92568,93341,1846,166170,478,511,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-430116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-abc-27","tag-approval","tag-big-bend","tag-declaration","tag-disaster","tag-first-to-know-forecast","tag-hurricane","tag-isaias","tag-national","tag-south-georgia","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}