特朗普批准德州重大灾难宣告 克尔县可申请联邦个人与公共援助
2025年7月6日，特朗普总统批准德州重大灾难宣告，为2025年7月2日起持续的严重风暴、直线风与洪水打开联邦援助，位于德克萨斯州丘陵地区的克尔县是宣告的首个适用县，联邦紧急事务管理署（FEMA）的灾难编号为 FEMA-4879-DR。
按这份宣告，克尔县受灾的个人与家庭可以申请联邦个人援助，包括临时住房与房屋维修补助、没有保险的财产损失方面的低息贷款，以及灾难法律服务、灾难失业援助与因灾产生的医疗、牙科和丧葬费用等方面的帮助。克尔县同时获准公共援助，联邦按费用分担方式，向州与合格的地方政府及特定私营非营利组织提供紧急工作与修复受损设施的资金，其中包括直接联邦援助。联邦协调官由 Benjamin Abbott 出任，负责在灾区协调联邦行动。
这场洪水自7月2日起持续，瓜达卢佩河水位在7月4日的暴雨中短时间内猛涨，克尔县是受灾最重的地区之一。宣告发布时，州与地方的搜救和灾情评估仍在进行，联邦机构人员已向灾区集结。
受灾居民可以上 DisasterAssistance.gov 申请，或拨打 FEMA 热线 1-800-621-3362。这份宣告先只适用于克尔县，其他受灾县是否加入，要等州与联邦的联合灾情评估后再定。
（来源：联邦紧急事务管理署）
Trump Approves Major Disaster Declaration for Texas, Opening Federal Aid to Kerr County
On July 6, 2025, President Donald Trump approved a major disaster declaration for the State of Texas, opening federal assistance for the severe storms, straight-line winds and flooding that began on July 2, 2025, and continued. Kerr County, in the Texas Hill Country, was the first county designated under the declaration, numbered FEMA-4879-DR by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Under the declaration, individuals and households in Kerr County are eligible for FEMA's Individual Assistance program, which can help with temporary housing and emergency home repairs, low-interest loans for uninsured or underinsured property losses, and expenses such as disaster legal services, disaster unemployment assistance, and medical, dental and funeral costs caused by the disaster. Kerr County was also designated for Public Assistance, including direct federal assistance, under which federal funding is available on a cost-sharing basis to the state and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofits for emergency work and the repair or replacement of disaster-damaged facilities. Benjamin Abbott of FEMA was appointed as the federal coordinating officer for the disaster.
The flooding had been under way since July 2, and the Guadalupe River rose sharply within a short time during the July 4 rainstorms, leaving Kerr County among the hardest-hit areas. When the declaration was issued, state and local rescue work and damage assessments were still under way, and federal personnel were moving into the disaster area.
Affected residents can apply for assistance at DisasterAssistance.gov or by calling the FEMA helpline at 1-800-621-3362. The declaration initially applied to Kerr County only; whether additional counties would be added depended on joint state and federal damage assessments.
(Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency)
来源：联邦紧急事务管理署
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图片来源：图：2025年7月5日，德州克尔县瓜达卢佩河沿岸洪灾过后的景象，前一天的暴雨令河水在约一小时内上涨数十英尺。美国农业部摄，公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Flood damage along the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, Texas, on July 5, 2025, after the previous day's rainstorm raised the river by dozens of feet in about an hour. Photo by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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