The City of Kimberley has been advised by Emergency Management BC that Provincial Disaster Financial Assistance (DFA) has been authorized for qualifying claimants, such as home owners, residential tenants, small businesses, farmers, charitable organizations and local government bodies, who were unable to obtain insurance to cover these disaster-related losses during the April 25-30 Kimberley Creek flood.

The City of Kimberley and Regional District of East Kootenay Electoral Area E, as well as the Village of Kaslo, Regional District of Kootenay Boundary – Area E and Regional District of Central Kootenay – Area A have been approved for funding assistance, it was reported today (May 31).

According to the City of Kimberley’s website, all applicants for funding assistance should first check with their insurance agent to determine if their current insurance policy provides coverage for the resulting damage.

Applicants should also be aware that DFA is only available for a principal residence.  Seasonal and secondary homes are not eligible for assistance.

Applications for Disaster Financial Assistance, please access EMBC’s website at 
https://www.pep.bc.ca/dfa_claims/dfa.html

There you will find the ‘Disaster Financial Assistance Guidelines for Private Sector’ and ‘One Step at a time – a Guide to Disaster Recover’.

As applications are received in the EMBC office, EMBC contracted evaluators will contact the applicants to explain DFA requirements and schedule an onsite visit.  If you have any questions, please call the toll-free number at 1-888-257-4777.

If an applicant does not have internet access, the application forms and the guides will be available for pick-up at City Hall, 340 Spokane Street, Kimberley, BC  V1A 2E8.

Kimberley’s Morrison Subdivision and a section of Wallinger Avenue flooded April 25 following a brief heat wave that melted a heavy section of snowpack at the nearby Kimberley Creek reservoir. An evacuation order was issued that day and it was lifted May 1.

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