(NewsNation) — Victims affected by the deadly Los Angeles County wildfires whose federal disaster relief claim was denied may actually just be missing documentation or information on their claim.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is asking fire victims who filed claims for federal assistance to read a letter detailing their eligibility for federal assistance before becoming discouraged. FEMA officials said repeatedly that a simple fix can be made during the appeal process.

Since the outbreak of the fires last week, many applicants for federal assistance have reported receiving denial letters from FEMA. Although such letters may seem to indicate that a person is ineligible to receive financial help from the federal agency, applicants may still be able to receive relief aid.

FEMA says a common reason why applicants received letters denying their claim or stating that a decision was pending was a lack of information provided by the applicant. Missing information that could result in a denial includes insurance details, an estimate for a contractor’s work, proof of occupancy or a missed appointment with a FEMA inspector.

On Monday, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Chairperson Kathryn Barger said FEMA has set up several field offices to work with victims of the deadly fires.

“FEMA relief is essential to getting our impacted residents back on their feet,” she said.

On Tuesday, efforts that began with FEMA officials setting up workstations at local libraries will transition to centralized assistance centers. The centers will be located at Pasadena City College and the UCLA Research Park. Barger said residents will be able to receive in-person support for lodging and essential items and help with other large-scale needs.

More than 26,000 people have registered for assistance under President Joe Biden’s Major Disaster Declaration. Biden has said that the federal government will cover 100% of the costs for the next six months associated with the fires.

Barger said that she has heard from many residents, especially those who are uninsured, who are concerned that they will not receive enough federal assistance to help them with their rebuilding efforts. Barger said in addition to advocating for federal assistance, she will also be pushing for what she called innovative loan and housing solutions that will allow residents to return to their communities.

(KTLA) — More changes have materialized at Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion ride, including a new look and updated storyline for the mansion’s ghostly bride.

Utilizing the latest in projection technology, the bride will now appear to be floating before guests while holding a physical three-pronged candelabra, the Los Angeles Times reported. She will also have a beating red heart, a homage to the attraction’s original bride figure.

Unlike the previous bridal scene, where the former bride Constance Hatchaway was depicted in a wedding dress holding a hatchet, which correlated with her more sinister backstory, the new bride appears to be more grief-stricken and lovesick.

“We thought, what if we change the story back a little bit to the original story that the Imagineers had about a lost bride in the attic mourning the loss of her husbands,” Kim Irvine, the longtime creative director with Imagineering at Disneyland, told the Times. “It was a sad thing. It was a story about lost love.”

This isn’t the first time Disney has changed the fan-favorite bride character. The first iteration of the character had a physical beating heart when the ride opened in 1969.

Disney changed the characters’ depiction again in the 1990s. In 2006, Hatchaway, who is known for killing her husbands, debuted, according to blog websites.

Irvine also shared that the candelabra the bride holds is identical to the one shown in the hall scene earlier in the ride. This change now implies the bride is wandering across the mansion. The same candelabra will also appear in a cemetery scene during the ride’s finale.

Irvine anticipates that some Disney fans, many of whom are superfans of the attraction, won’t like the changes but explains to the publication that the change was necessary.

“The bride that used to be in there was an axe murderer, and in this day and age, we have to be really careful about the sensitivities of people,” Irvine said. “We were celebrating someone chopping off her husband’s head, and it was a weird story. I know the fans — some will like it, and some will say, ‘Oh, you changed something again.’ That’s our job. That’s what we’re here for.”

The changes aren’t complete at the mansion either. During the attraction’s closure, some fans speculated that the hanging corpse in the stretching room would be removed. Irvine noted that such a change is possible.

“We’re still looking at that,” Irvine said. “That one is complicated, structurally … One thing at a time.”

“Foolish mortals” will be able to see the new bride In the ride when it reopens on Jan. 18 after a nearly year-long closure.

(KTLA) – Two inmates from Southern California are suspects in a deadly attack on a third inmate at California State Prison (SAC), previously called New Folsom Prison, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials announced Thursday.  

The violence unfolded in the prison’s main exercise yard just after 5 p.m. on Jan. 15, according to a CDCR news release.  

Prison officials said that officers responded as two inmates, identified as 32-year-old Cody Taylor and 58-year-old David Gomez, attacked 36-year-old Mario Campbell, quickly stopping the violence “with one application of chemical agents.”  

The victim was rushed to a hospital outside the prison where he was declared dead by a physician just before 6:30 p.m. 

At the scene of the attack in the exercise yard, officers located “three improvised weapons,” the release detailed.  

Both Taylor and Gomez were put in restricted housing after prison officials launched a homicide investigation.  

Sentenced to life with the possibility of parole for “penetration with force against a victim’s will,” Campbell was transferred to SAC in October 2009, officials said. The 36-year-old was also convicted of false imprisonment, a felon in possession of a firearm and first-degree burglary and robbery among several other offenses.  

Taylor, who was most recently sentenced to life with the possibility of parole in Sacramento County for first-degree murder among other violent offenses, was transferred to SAC from Ventura County in May 2013.  

Originally transferred to SAC from Los Angeles County in April 1998 for rape, oral copulation with force and first-degree burglary, he was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole. In January 2021, he was convicted in Monterey County for first-degree murder and another violent offense and was again sentenced to life with the possibility of parole.  

California State Prison in Sacramento County opened in 1986 and houses more than 2,200 medium, maximum and high-security inmates.