Fort Myers Beach Mayor Dan Allers told Newsmax on Monday that his town has yet to receive assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency nearly a week after Hurricane Milton made landfall on the southwest coast of Florida.

Allers said on “Wake Up America” that he “hasn’t seen anyone from FEMA down here yet,” adding that Fort Myers Beach residents are “still dealing with trying to get payouts from FEMA from two years ago,” when Hurricane Ian hit.

“The process that FEMA goes through, it seems like it’s very tedious,” he said. “They bring people in for about two or three weeks, they have a lot of boots on the ground, but it doesn’t seem that they have a lot of people that can make decisions.”

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