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US Senate passes long-awaited tax relief for fire victims
Story by The Press Democrat. “This is a huge moment of justice for disaster survivors, said Jennifer Gray Thompson, CEO of After The Fire USA, a key advocate for the ...
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Disaster relief advocate calls for ‘urgency’ in Congress over tax relief legislation
Story by NBC News, Meet the Press. With just a few weeks remaining in the current session of Congress, After the Fire USA CEO Jennifer Gray Thompson joins Meet the ...
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3 ways to make your home more wildfire resistant
Story by abc news. A simple and inexpensive upgrade you can do to your home is change out the vents, explained Jennifer Gray Thompson with nonprofit After the Fire USA. ...
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Hurricane Milton victims could get more generous tax breaks. Senators just need to vote for them.
Story by msn. “I absolutely think Helene should put pressure [on lawmakers to pass the bill],” said Jennifer Gray Thompson, founder and CEO of After the Fire USA, an organization ...
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Maui delegation connects with other fire-stricken counties at wildfire summit
Story by Maui Now. Mayor Richard Bissen joined Maui’s state, county and community leaders at After the Fire USA’s 2024 Wildfire Leadership Summit last week in Sonoma, Calif. Together, they ...
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Sonoma County leaders share experience, lessons learned with visitors from fire-stricken island of Maui
Story by The Press Democrat. The trip was hosted by After the Fire USA as part of the nonprofit organization’s annual three-day Wildfire Leadership Summit in Sonoma. It’s an example of what Chief Executive ...
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Chronic housing shortage leaves Maui residents displaced a year after deadly wildfire
Story by PBS. Thompson has never before seen the Federal Emergency Management Agency invest so heavily in keeping a community together, she said. LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Josephine Fraser ...
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Bob Fenton Reflects On A Year Of Leading FEMA’s Fire Recovery Efforts On Maui
Story by Civil Beat. Jennifer Gray Thompson, president of the nonprofit After the Fire, said last month that FEMA’s experience on Maui will likely benefit communities in the future that experience ...
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A year after Maui wildfire, chronic housing shortage and pricey vacation rentals complicate recovery
Story by AP news. Jennifer Gray Thompson, the CEO of nonprofit fire-recovery initiative After The Fire, said she has worked in 18 counties that have suffered massive wildfires since 2017, ...
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Rebuilding begins in Lahaina wildfire impact zone
Story by West Hawaii Today. “What’s really important in a megafire like this one, and every single one, is visual deliverable of progress and hope, and that’s what you are ...
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6 years after California’s deadly Camp Fire, some residents are returning to Paradise
Story by CBS news. "People who do decide to rebuild in a place like Paradise, they're often even safer than they were before the fire, because that place has already ...
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Oregon wildfire victims face huge tax bills on PacifiCorp settlements; Congressional fix is stuck
Story by Oregon Live. The disaster tax relief only accounts for about $5.5 billion of the bill’s $70 billion cost. “We don’t have time for people to play politics with ...
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Gentrification by Fire
Story by The Washington Post. SANTA ROSA, Calif. — Climate change and its most extreme consequences are pushing up the price of homes throughout much of the American West, as ...
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Five months after Maui fires, housing remains Lahaina’s biggest challenge in rebuilding efforts
Story by NBC News. Five months since the deadly wildfires in Lahaina, Hawaii, providing housing for displaced residents continues to be the biggest challenge facing the community’s rebuilding efforts. After ...
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NBC News Now: Nov 24, 2023. Dasha Burns
Jennifer Gray Thompson joins Dasha Burns on NBC News Now to discuss After the Fire USA's delegation to Maui to aid in recovery efforts.
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What happens after the fire
Story by npr. NPR's Pien Huang speaks to Jennifer Gray Thompson, founder and CEO of After the Fire USA, about what to expect from long-term recovery after a wildfire. ...
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In Hawaii, concerns over ‘climate gentrification’ rise after devastating Maui fires
Story by AP news. Thompson said Maui is one of the “scariest opportunities for gentrification” that she’s seen because of “the very high land values and the intense level of ...
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Greenville rising from the ashes 2 years after Dixie Fire
Story by NBC Bay Area. “They’re very creative, they’re very innovative,” said Jennifer Gray Thompson of the Bay Area fire response group After The Fire. “And then to see this ...
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Sonoma Valley resident, After the Fire CEO joining Rep. Mike Thompson at Biden’s State of the Union address
Story by The Sonoma Index-Tribune. As a lifelong resident of the valley and local leader in disaster relief from the 2017 fires, Rep. Thompson believes Gray Thompson “is emblematic of ...
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Forbes Profile: Jennifer Gray Thompson
Story by Forbes. From the Editor Gray Thompson, a leader in the recent field of megafire disasters across the American West, is the CEO of After The Fire, a nonprofit ...
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Sonoma Group Forged in Tubbs Fire Helping Other Wildfire Victims Cope
Story by NBC Bay Area. "Our goal is they won’t have to begin at the beginning," Thompson said. "We can actually shorten that pain period between actual event and how ...
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