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Announcements
New staff, services coming to Bastrop County Disaster Recovery Center
Thursday, January 5, 2012
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The Bastrop County Disaster Recovery Center is now offering extended services for fire survivors and for long term community recovery. This new locally-directed relief and recovery resource center, located at 1091 Hwy. 71 W, Bastrop, will continue and expand services formerly offered by the FEMA Disaster Recovery Center which closed November 19th.
During January the recovery center will continue renovations for expanded services, installing new workstations and full access for people with disabilities. Initial January hours of the volunteer-run center will be Wednesday – Friday afternoons, 1-4 pm, adding hours as volunteers join the team.
Beginning February 1st, service hours return to 9am–5pm Monday – Friday as the center adds full time professional staff funded by US Dept of Labor National Emergency Grants.
The Bastrop County Recovery Center provides enhanced programs and services for fire survivors, plus resources and support for long term community recovery. Special January programs include:
Solving Insurance Problems and Future Fire Protection for Homes
Check BastropRelief.org or call 512 549-3011 for details.
Bastrop Recovery Information/Services Line: 512 549-3011
Thanks to generous support from the Lance Armstrong Foundation, the Bastrop Recovery Information hotline is renewing operations (phone volunteers needed). This Recovery Center service offers information on: relief services, donations, volunteer opportunities, community wildfire recovery.
Similar information services are also available online through BastropRelief.org.
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For additional information, please visit BastropRelief.org
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Information Contact: gcrick@main.org 512 468 5052
Gene Crick, Director, Bastrop County Disaster Recovery Center
Communications Chair, Bastrop Long Term Recovery Committee
1091 Hwy. 71 West / PO Box 328, Bastrop, TX 78602
We welcome discussion on our stories but we will only publish comments that do not violate our Comment Guidelines.
So how can you help those of us who left Bastrop County after the fire because of the lack of temporary housing in the county? We’ve been neglected from the get-go. It’s tough to rebuild after this catastrophe. . . in Bastrop County, with all it’s localized support services. It’s even harder to rebuild outside the fire zone. Who’s there for us?
Why not call them and ask what they can do? Quit watching and do something.
Thought so.
Ignore us, you think we’ll go away? Actually, we’ll band together (already are), file lawsuits, write books, contact reporters, smile for the cameras, and make a big stink far and wide. It’s been 129 days of homelessness. What’s to lose now?
This is great, but still no ANSWER about the thousands of dollars that was raised for fire victims, that only very few benefited from, We lost our home, which was a rental, all of our stuff, two dogs and a car we have gotten 1 100.00 gift card, a few used clothes and a bit of food. we had to locate out of Bastrop so it makes it very hard to keep up on things.
What is being done for us.
Mike,
do you think that thoses in need haven’t called, many times, every other day same answer. As for the missing fund, every the AG’s office, who will follow up.
this was not anyones fault, but it happened. some of us were effected worst then others.
Mike, I’ve spent more time making phone calls, filling out paperwork, going to dead-end appointments, jumping through hoops, and listening to stories of nothing but BS from every church and government agency involved in this farce since September 4 than I spend doing anything else. You live in a fantasy land if you think people like me aren’t doing something to rebuild. People like me are getting more than fed up watching from a distance what’s being done on a greed-based egocentric level. Sounds like you escaped this catastrophe as an observer. Luck runs out, dude.
If you think I “escaped this catastrophe” you are mistaken. I lost everything I own. I was actually in my home when it caught fire, so don’t give me that condescending attitude. I got nothing from all that money that was distributed by the BCMA. I’ve filled out the paperwork to get help and at this point in time nada. I’m out there doing what I have to do to get my life back in order. I’m not waiting for anyone to help me, I’m doing it myself.
Not waiting for anybody to help? Me, too, Mike. It’s just a long, lonely, slow row to hoe. It gets quite disheartening to be constantly bombarded by all the touchy-feely, do-gooder stories making the newspaper headlines and the TV, knowing the relief money isn’t really getting to the people like you and me who could really use it. Everybody I know who sent money and bought expensive concert tickets had people in mind. The people seem to have been forgotten. I’d much rather know a fire victim was being helped than to know we’ve got more government overhead to fund instead. I see too much red tape already.
THE CONCERT MONEY WAS NEVER DISTRIBUTED SO WHO HAS GOTTEN MONEY OR HELP?
Does anyone know who to call to have debris from the fire picked up. We were told to place all burned things on the side of the road and the county would pick it up. It’s been sitting there since September – Thank you
Sure would be nice to get an answer to your question, wouldn’t it, firevictim?
Fortunately, most folks have not filed a lawsuit or whined about who is going to help them. Most of us just scraped the slab clean and started over. Sad to see the people who have been trained by government to expect a freebie.
to get debris picket up call the SAIC officeat the Hunters Crossing by Home Depot. It is by Goin Postal on 201 Hunters Crossing. Unfortunately I don’t have their phonw number as I walked into their office. Hope this helps.
Stuart, most of us have scraped the slab clean and started over without help from the government. That reality doesn’t erase the need for an answer to the question: where’s the donation money?
Where is the money? Is anyone going to answer? EVER? I just looked at new photos today and saw our lovely senators and congressmen in Washington having a huge benefit for the survivors. Where did that money go? Where did ALL the money go? Someone answer please. And for the ones that have banded together…please include me. I’m Julia Miller on Facebook, email juliamiller147@aol.com. Thanks.