U.S. Department of
Homeland SecurityFederal Emergency Management Agency
FEMA Office of External Affairs,
Private Sector Engagement
FEMA-IGA@fema.dhs.gov
Private Sector Advisory
Survivors Urged to Listen
to Local Officials and Only Return Home When Safe
October 13, 2018
Safety Messages for the Public
- Stay safe and follow local guidance. Do not return home until
you are told it is safe. Be aware of blocked roads and possible
structural, electrical or gas-leak hazards. Shut off power natural gas and
propane tanks if you know how.
- Monitor
the weather. Avoid strenuous cleanup work
during the warmest part of the day, use insect repellent, and stay away
from wild or stay animals. Check with utility companies to find out when
electricity and gas services may be restored.
- Ensure
food
and water are safe. Water
can be contaminated or unsafe. Be prepared to boil water to drink,
cook or clean with after a hurricane.
- File
an insurance claim. Photograph/video damages
before you start cleaning up. Contact your insurance company for
assistance.
- Send
money, not stuff. Cash can be used immediately in
response to a crisis. A financial contribution to a recognized disaster
relief organization is the most
effective donation to make.
-
FEMA Operational Items:
FEMA deployed Incident Management Assistance Teams to Atlanta and the State
Emergency Operation Centers in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia with other teams
still deployed to North Carolina and South Carolina. The teams will help
coordinate federal response assistance requests.
Four Disaster Support Assistance (DSA) Teams have deployed to provide
support to Florida shelters, and six DSA-trained FEMA Corps teams have
mobilized to the affected area.
Safety and Security
FEMA US&R
- To
date, FEMA US&R teams completed 40 evacuations, 24 assists, 3,447
shelter in place checks, 33 animal assists, and 3,789 structural
assessments.
U.S. Department of Defense
- U.S.
Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) has provided personnel and equipment
from the U.S.
Department of Defense to assist in
response efforts.
- DoD has moved personnel and cargo in the affected areas, is providing
rotary wing aircraft, swift water boats and rescue personnel.
- DoD has assets have been mobilized for assignment; 32 rotary wing
assets, 6 fixed wing, 17 swift water vessels, and up to 160
high-water-vehicles.
- NOAA
law enforcement has provided a quick response team to the Atlanta, Georgia
staging area to support force protection and site security for Urban
Search and Rescue Mission.
National Guard Bureau
- The
National Guard has 2,448 Guardsmen on State Active Duty for immediate
response with an additional 1,500 Guardsmen expected to mobilize in the
next 24 hours from Florida and Georgia. Florida has an additional 2,500
National Guard members standing by in reserve. Additionally, there are
approximately 22,240 additional Guardsmen from Alabama, Georgia, South
Carolina, and North Carolina conducting regularly scheduled training this
weekend and would be immediately available for tasking if required.
- National
Guard support equipment capabilities include 15 Florida rotary wing
aircraft for immediate response (CH-47/UH-60/HH-60/UH-72) with 16 more
available from supporting states. Additionally, there are 27 ANG fixed and
rotary wing aircraft (C-17/C-130/KC-135/HH-60) available for mission
tasking with more than 670 high wheel vehicles available in Florida with
an additional 2,268 located in surrounding states.
- Florida
has resourced more than 50 missions that include search & rescue,
liaison, engineer, route clearance and POD support for 30 locations as
well as 12 shelter support missions.
- There
are 11 open Florida EMAC requests from more than five supporting states
that include one Multipurpose Battalion (400 assigned personnel), seven
CH-47 rotary wing aircraft, and 11 UH-60 rotary wing aircraft.
- S. Coast Guard
- USCG has completed 488 rescues/assistance missions
and one animal rescue.
- USCG has pre-staged nine-fixed and 24 rotary wing
assets for post-storm SAR efforts; three shallow water rescue teams (11
boats) en route to Panama City; two teams (six boats) en route to
Tallahassee; 17 cutters remain positioned to assist with post-storm SAR
efforts and the reconstitution of ports.
Food, Water, Sheltering
- Florida has released U.S. Department of Agriculture
foods in 35 affected counties for use at shelters, canteens and mobile
kitchens.
- The
American Red Cross plans to distribute emergency supplies to a maximum of
9,000 households beginning October 17
- The
Salvation Army mobilized 48 mobile feeding units with a combined
service capacity of 72,000 daily meals. Additionally, the Salvation Army
is supporting various shelters throughout the impacted area.
- Salvation Army has mobilized 21 mobile feeding units
(canteens) in Georgia with the capacity to serve 30,000 meals per day.
- Florida Baptist has four kitchens activated with
total capacity of 170,000 meals per day and six additional kitchens on
standby in Tallahassee.
- In Florida, 18 mobile feeding units (canteens) on
standby and nine additional mobile units are set to arrive on Friday,
providing a combined total meal capacity of 40,500 per day.
- Operation Barbeque Relief is staging field kitchens
in Tampa and Tallahassee with a total meal capacity of 30,000 meals per
day for these two field kitchens.
- Southern Baptist Disaster Relief has 12 additional
kitchens in nearby states that can provide up to 176,000 meals per day.
- More than 2,800 evacuees spent the night in 27
shelters in Florida.
- In Alabama, 56 people stayed in three shelters
overnight.
- Georgia has three shelters open, and Georgia State
Parks and Atlanta Motor Speedway facilities may become available for
evacuees. Overnight, 148 people stayed in Georgia shelters.
- USDA launched a disaster assistance website
Farmers.gov that walks producers through five questions to help them
identify personalized results of which USDA disaster assistance programs
can help them recover after a natural disaster.
- USACE deployed two temporary roofing subject matter
experts to assess the need for temporary roofing mission.
- At the state’s request, FEMA has released more than
700,000 meals and more than 1.7 million liters of water to Florida to
supplement local resources.
Health and Medical
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- U.S.
Health and Human Services (HHS) reports that six Disaster Assistance
Medical Teams (DMATs) are engaged across Walton Beach, Panama City and
Tallahassee.
- HHS reports 308 ground ambulances and 125
para-transit members to support patient movement, and five ambulance
strike teams arrived in Florida to assist with patient transport.
- Five mobile medical strike teams are engaged across
Florida in medical missions like US&R operations, supporting damaged
critical facilities, and in shelters.
- In Georgia, HHS currently has 60 ambulances staged
and reports 7 hospitals and 20 nursing homes on generator power.
- The HHS Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration made the Disaster Distress Helpline available to assist
residents in the impacted area in coping with the stress caused by
Michael. To connect with a trained crisis counselor, call 1-800-985-5990
or text TalkWithUs to 66746 (for Spanish, press 2 or text Hablanos to
66746).
Energy (Power and Fuel)
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
(USACE) District Emergency Operations Centers have been activated in
Alabama, Florida and Georgia.
- USACE has deployed a Temporary
Power Planning and Response Team (PRT) and members from the 249th Engineer
Battalion are prepared to assess and install
generators as requested by the state; 55 generators are onsite with an additional 30 generators en route.
U.S. Department of Energy
- The Department of Energy (DOE) has
activated its Energy Response Organization; DOE responders deployed to the
Regional Response Coordination Center, the Florida and Georgia State
Emergency Operations Centers. Additional DOE responders are on standby to
deploy to other states as needed.
- DOE is holding daily calls with the energy industry to ensure unity of
effort. Industry has activated its mutual assistance network, and crews
from at least 19 states have mobilized to begin restoring power as soon as
it is safe to do so.
- Currently, DOE reports hundreds of
thousands of customers are without power across Florida, Alabama and
Georgia
- DOE is closely monitoring the availability of fuel across
the Southeast. Overall, supplies of gasoline in the region are at or above
the five-year range.
Private Sector Energy Partners
- Electric utility fleets are moving from the
following states to regions in western Florida to pre-stage resources to support power
restoration efforts: Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas,
Illinois, Louisiana and Pennsylvania.
Communications
- Nine FEMA Mobile
Emergency Response Support units are supporting secure and non-secure
voice, video and information services to support emergency response
communications needs throughout areas impacted by Michael.
- The
Federal
Communications Commission is prepared to provide emergency assistance
to communications providers and has created a dedicated
webpage for information about Hurricane Michael, including tips for
communicating during an emergency.
Transportation
- U.S. Department of Transportation created an interactive
web mapping application to provide real-time situational awareness of
transportation infrastructure and road closures in the affected area.
- Federal
and State DOTs are assessing transportation infrastructure impacted by
Hurricane Michael. Road maintenance crews throughout the affected regions
are partnering with utility, medical and search and rescue teams to clear
critical access routes.
Hazardous Waste
- The Environmental Protection Agency identified
priority oil and chemical facilities and sites that might require
assessment.
Federal, State, Tribal and Local Efforts
- Sixteen different states are sending support through the Emergency
Management Assistance Compact. More than 26 missions are active in both
Florida and Georgia with more than 430 people deployed to assist.
- NOAA
has collected aerial images of the Florida panhandle and are available
on www.NOAA.gov.
- NOAA
issued Storm Quicklooks for Michael, which provided near
real-time information about water levels and winds. NOAA will be
validating storm surge observations from this historic event.
Declaration Background Information:
Major Disaster Declarations
- On Oct. 11, President Trump declared a Major Disaster for the state of
Florida as a result of Hurricane Michael. This declaration makes federal
funding available to affected individuals in Bay, Franklin, Gulf, Taylor
and Wakulla counties. Federal funding is also available to the state,
tribal and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit
organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency work damaged by
Hurricane Michael in Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Hamilton,
Jackson, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Suwannee, Taylor and Wakulla
counties. This
is in addition to the Oct. 9 emergency declaration for 35 counties.
- Individuals
and business owners who sustained losses in the designated area can visit disasterassistance.gov
to check eligibility for federal, state, local, and voluntary
organizations in their community that best meet their specific needs.
- Survivors
without internet access can check their eligibility for disaster
assistance by calling 1-800-621-3362 (Multilingual operators are available
press 2 for Spanish).
- Disaster
assistance applicants who use TTY, should call 1-800-462-7585 directly;
for those who use 711 or Video Relay Service, call 1-800-621-3362. The
toll-free telephone numbers will operate from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.
daily.
Emergency Disaster Declarations
- President Trump declared an emergency declaration
Oct. 12 for Alabama which provides funding to supplement state, tribal and
local response efforts ahead of Hurricane Michael.
- President Trump declared an emergency declaration on
Oct. 10 for 107 counties in Georgia to supplement state and local response
efforts ahead of Hurricane Michael.
- Specifically, FEMA is authorized to provide
assistance for debris removal and emergency protective measures
(Categories A and B), including direct federal assistance under the
Public Assistance program, in Baker, Bleckley, Burke, Calhoun, Colquitt,
Crisp, Decatur, Dodge, Dooly, Dougherty, Early, Emanuel, Grady, Houston,
Jefferson, Jenkins, Johnson, Laurens, Lee, Macon, Miller, Mitchell,
Pulaski, Seminole, Sumter, Terrell, Thomas, Treutlen, Turner, Wilcox and
Worth counties. Assistance will be provided at 75 percent federal
funding.
- In addition, assistance for emergency protective
measures (Category B), limited to direct federal assistance under the
Public Assistance program, will be provided at 75 percent federal funding
in Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb, Brantley,
Brooks, Bryan, Bulloch, Butts, Camden, Candler, Charlton, Chatham,
Chattahoochee, Clarke, Clay, Clinch, Coffee, Columbia, Cook, Crawford,
Echols, Effingham, Elbert, Evans, Glascock, Glynn, Greene, Hancock,
Irwin, Jasper, Jeff Davis, Jones, Lamar, Lanier, Liberty, Lincoln, Long,
Lowndes, Marion, McDuffie, McIntosh, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan,
Muscogee, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Peach, Pierce, Putnam, Quitman, Randolph,
Richmond, Schley, Screven, Stewart, Talbot, Taliaferro, Tattnall, Taylor,
Telfair, Tift, Toombs, Twiggs, Upson, Ware, Warren, Washington, Wayne,
Webster, Wheeler, Wilkes and Wilkinson counties.
- President Trump declared an emergency declaration on
Oct. 9 for 35 Florida counties to supplement state and local response
efforts ahead of Hurricane Michael.
- Specifically, FEMA is authorized to provide
assistance for debris removal and emergency protective measures
(Categories A and B), including direct federal assistance under the
Public Assistance program, in Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf,
Hamilton, Jackson, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Suwannee, Taylor,
and Wakulla counties. Assistance will be provided at 75 percent federal
funding.
- In
addition, assistance for emergency protective measures (Category B),
limited to direct federal assistance under the Public Assistance program,
will be provided at 75 percent federal funding in Alachua, Baker,
Bradford, Citrus, Columbia, Dixie, Escambia, Gilchrist, Hernando,
Hillsborough, Holmes, Lafayette, Levy, Manatee, Okaloosa, Pasco,
Pinellas, Santa Rosa, Union, Walton, and Washington counties.
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