4,000 Strong: The Federal Tempest Response

President Donald J. Trump & Vice President Mike Pence are briefed onHurricane Florence past times Secretary of the Dept of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen | September 13, 2018

The White House: President Donald J. Trump together with senior officials are monitoring multiple storms this week, including Florence, Olivia, Mangkut, together with Isaac. The Administration began putting precautionary measures inwards house for these conditions events earlier Labor Day.

More than 4,000 Federal employees, including to a greater extent than than 1,000 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), are working roughly the clock inwards reply to these storms. Federal teams bring been deployed across the Southeastern U.S. together with Mid-Atlantic regions, including:

• 2 Army Corps of Engineers teams inwards the Carolinas together with Virginia to assist innovation for debris removal together with temporary ability support
• 5 Department of Health together with Human Services Disaster Medical Assistance teams inwards the Carolinas, Maryland, together with Virginia
• 7 FEMA Incident Management Assistance teams
• 16 FEMA Urban Search together with Rescue teams, including swift H2O rescue project forces
• Coast Guard personnel positioned inwards the Carolinas, Georgia, together with Virginia to apace mobilize inwards back upward of search-and-rescue efforts

The individual sector is the root source for goods inwards affected areas, together with if those supplies are exhausted, State, local, together with volunteer agencies stride inwards to render additional assistance. Among the resources already inwards house are to a greater extent than than xi 1000000 meals, xviii 1000000 liters of water, 60,000 cots, together with 1 1000000 blankets.

It is the project of the Federal Government to back upward these parties whatever means it can. FEMA has to a greater extent than than ii dozen Incident Support Bases, Distribution Centers, together with other sites amongst life-saving supplies throughout the East Coast, the Caribbean, Hawaii, Guam, together with the Northern Marianas Islands. FEMA National together with Regional Response Coordination Centers bring too been activated to coordinate amongst local actors. “The security of American people is my absolute highest priority,” President Trump said this week. “We are sparing no expense.”

What to know virtually the Federal reply to these deadly storms. Follow: @FEMA, @NWS, or @Readygov on Twitter for alive updates. Visit Hurricanes for to a greater extent than information on how to prepare.

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