August 18, 2004

1800 hrs

SEOC LEVEL

124 Hour Operations

Mike DeLorenzo

Up next – FEMA

SERT CHIEF

FEMA

FEMA• Current Issues –

– Liaison to Charley Command established

• Unmet Needs –– Continuing to process Action Requests to include baby food,

base camp management and temporary fire stations

• Future Operations –– Transition to the DFO is progressing

Up next – Meteorology

METEOROLOGY

Wednesday – Surface Analysis

Florida Radar – 5:36 PM EDT

Recovery Forecast

Tomorrow:

•Scattered showers and thunderstorms mainly after 2 PM•Partly cloudy, with a high around 91•Heat indices as high as 101•Chance of rain 50 percent

Tonight:

•Scattered showers and thunderstorms before 11 PM•Chance of rain 50 percent•Low around 75

Tropics Less Active

Tropical Storm Formation Not Expected Through Thursday

Up next – Operations Chief

Up next – Emergency Services

OPERATIONS CHIEF

EMERGENCY SERVICES

Up next – Human Services

HUMAN SERVICES

• Current Operations –– Community Relations staff now in field; some with bilingual personnel– Revised Combined Comfort Station/Feeding, DRC list- Tracker #4264– 30 comfort stations, 44 canteens currently in operation– 15 feeding kitchens (10 currently in operation)– 161 trucks of water have been tasked for deployment– 134 trucks of ice have been tasked for deployment– 310,000 meals have been delivered to various sites– Providing USDA food to the Salvation Army and American Red Cross in

response to missions– Registering volunteers and offers of donations– Working to match offers of goods and services with reported unmet

needs– RRC is currently accepting goods. Will be able to begin distribution 8/19– Setting up multiple staging areas for the distribution of animal products

and food– Moving donated animal feed from LSA1 down to the impacted area– Code 3 mobile veterinary hospital in operation at Bartow, FL

Human Services

• Unmet Needs – – Peanut butter and jelly for Desoto County– Diapers (baby/adult)– Working to identify needs in the field

• Future Operations –– Monitor inventory of resources and re-supply as needed– Support efforts of disaster feeding organizations– Work with USDA regarding supplying commodities– Matching of donated goods and services with unmet

needs to continue– Maintain animal assessment teams in all counties

Up next – Infrastructure

Human Services

INFRASTRUCTURE

Up next – Military Support

ESF 13 – MILITARY SUPPORT

Military Support• Current Operations –

– Strength: 3,980 Soldiers and Airmen (14,418 man days)– Over 1,101 soldiers in support of Law Enforcement– LSA #1 fully operational at Linder Regional Airport and LSA

#2 in Charlotte County – 202 Red Horse Squadron (Airfield debris, EOC Structure

and engineering) – RECON Teams still deployed

• Unmet needs –– None at this time

• Future Operations –– Continued Support to Law Enforcement– LSA Operations, emergency airlifts, humanitiarian relief– Engineer support to Educational Facilities– Replacement Operations– Continued Aircraft support

Up next – Logistics

LOGISTICS

Up next – Finance & Administration

FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION

Finance and Administration• Current Issues –

– Working on security for the LSA at Charlotte Airport and the Wauchula State Farmers Market.

– Processed travel authorization requests and travel arrangements for people in the field.

– Processing multiple purchase requsitions and purchase orders.

• Unmet Needs – – None at this time

• Future Operations –– We will be reporting at tomorrows AM briefing the costs that

have been calculated by close of business today. We appreciate all state agency participation in todays conference call. We had a total of twenty nine State Financial Officers on the conference call and three Water Management Districts.

Up next – Public Information

ESF 14 – PUBLIC INFORMATION

Up next – Recovery

RECOVERY

Recovery• Current Operations –

– Continue transition to Disaster Field Office (DFO)– Frank Koutnik, Deputy SCO for Recovery has

transitioned to DFO– At present eight counties have exceeded threshold for

PA/not prepared to provide county names at this point.– Continue to work with counties on setting up Disaster

Relief Centers (DRC)• Unmet needs –

– Staffing DFO• Future Operations –

– Implementing Recovery Mitigation activities

Up next – SERT Chief

SERT CHIEF

Mike DeLorenzo

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