It took a lot of work to get the numbers the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) would not share. After reporters Hannah Dreier and Andrew Ba Tran figured out how to scrape the data from a dormant government website — pulling 9.5 million records, 1,000 rows at a time — they discovered how badly FEMA had failed the people it was created to help.
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