Mexico - Hurricane Wilma
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Regional Team: LAC
Disaster Declared: 10/23/2005
Brief Description: Hurricane Wilma made landfall in Cozumel, Mexico, on October 22, 2005, as a category four hurricane. According to the U.N. Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Hurricane Wilma caused severe flooding across Quintana Roo and Yucatan states, killing 7 people, displacing 300,000 others,
and affecting more than 1 million residents.
On October 23, 2005, U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Stephen R. Kelly issued a disaster declaration due to the magnitude of the damage caused by Hurricane Wilma. In response,
OFDA provided $100,000 through USAID/Mexico to the Mexican Red Cross for the local purchase and distribution of emergency relief supplies and $300,000 to the
American Red Cross in response to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) flash appeal for emergency relief activities.
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