President Donald J. Trump Mobilized a Massive Federal Response Ahead of Hurricane Florence
IMMEDIATE SUPPORT IN PLACE: President
* More than 3,800 Federal Employees, including more than 1,000 from the
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* HHS and
- 6 FEMA Incident Management Assistance Teams (IMAT)
- 14 FEMA Urban Search and
- 4 HHS Disaster Medical Assistance Teams (DMAT)
- One HHS Incident Management Team (IMT)
* Additional resources are staged in
- 3 FEMA Urban Search and
- 3 Disaster Medical Assistance Teams Maryland
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* The
- 58 personnel,
- 4 response boats,
- 10 Flood Response Boat Teams,
- 13 Incident Management Assistance Teams, and
- 17 National Strike Force teams.
PROTECTING THE POWER GRID:
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* More than 40,000 workers from at least 17 states have been mobilized by electric companies, public power utilities, and electric cooperatives.
- The
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ON SITE SUPPORT:
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* Federal resources are pre-positioned in the region, including:
- over 100 helicopters,
- over 6 million meals,
- over 4 million liters of water,
- over 6,000 cots, and
- over 730,000 blankets.
* These pre-positioned resources are ready to augment private sector, State, local, and volunteer organization capacities.
- In addition, non-governmental partners are providing mobile kitchen units capable of preparing more than 300,000 meals per day.
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* To ensure fuel supply following
* HHS has provided Medicare and Medicaid waivers to allow those who depend on benefits to seek care if they are displaced due to
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