Help for flood victims in Louisiana continues to pour in from North Texas.
"People who are out of their homes have the most immediate need. We need to get them sheltered," said Federal Emergency Management Agency spokesman Kurt Pickering.
As many as 400 workers from FEMA's Region 6 Headquarters in Denton are in Louisiana to get federal assistance to the people there.
"We really want everybody to be back into safe sanitary housing," Pickering said. "We want everybody to have whatever benefits match up with what their need is and their loss is."
In Denton, 300 more are answering the phones at FEMA's National Processing Service Center.
"We're probably one of the first places that the survivor contacts after a disaster," said FEMA's Robert Gunter. "We can talk to them and make sure they understand that things are going to be OK and that we're going to work to get assistance for them where they're eligible."
Truckloads of supplies from FEMA's Fort Worth warehouse are also in Baton Rouge, delivering generators, tarps, food and water.
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"Obviously our goal is to try and get people back on their feet, get people back into their homes, cause that's one of our priorities," said FEMA's Bullet Young, in Denton. "We want to try to move the individuals back into their homes as quickly as possible."
More than 115,000 families have already registered for federal assistance, and $127 million has already been distributed.
