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FEMA Settlement To Be Announced

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published January 12, 2014 at 4:13 PM EST
The June 1,2011 tornado tore the top floor off this apartment building in Springfield. The building was later torn down.
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The June 1,2011 tornado tore the top floor off this apartment building in Springfield. The building was later torn down.

Officials have scheduled an announcement Monday of a final settlement with FEMA for the tornado that devastated part of Springfield, Massachusetts two-and-a-half years ago

The June 1,2011 tornado tore the top floor off this apartment building in Springfield. The building was later torn down.
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The June 1,2011 tornado tore the top floor off this apartment building in Springfield. The building was later torn down.

Springfield recently received final approval from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the claims filed from the June 1,2011 tornado.  Mayor Domenic Sarno had vowed to be aggressive in pursuing reimbursements for debris removal and other emergency expenses born by the city

" I will continue to fight for every dime that is due to the city of Springfield and its people," Sarno said last summer.

The mayor’s office said funding for several capital projects will be also be announced.

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Paul Tuthill
Paul Tuthill is WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief. He’s been covering news, everything from politics and government corruption to natural disasters and the arts, in western Massachusetts since 2007. Before joining WAMC, Paul was a reporter and anchor at WRKO in Boston. He was news director for more than a decade at WTAG in Worcester. Paul has won more than two dozen Associated Press Broadcast Awards. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for reporting on veterans’ healthcare for WAMC in 2011. Born and raised in western New York, Paul did his first radio reporting while he was a student at the University of Rochester.
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