TRIADELPHIA — Gov. Patrick Morrisey praised the work already done at FEMA centers in Ohio and Marion counties, as well as the team behind it, while reiterating that the path to recovery is still in its early stages.

Morrisey toured the FEMA Disaster Recovery Center at the Triadelphia Community Center on Wednesday morning, one of two FEMA centers in that area of Ohio County. A Disaster Survivor Center is set up at the Valley Grove Community Center. Both towns, as well as parts of the Elm Grove and Woodsdale areas of Wheeling, suffered extensive damage in the June 14 floods. Dozens of homes were lost and nine people were killed.

The disaster survivor center opened in Valley Grove on July 28, while the disaster recovery center opened in Triadelphia on July 29.

“From the bottom of my heart,

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