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Salvation Army ready to provide relief for Hurricane Helene
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9/26/2024
AccuWeather speaks with Steven Hartsook of the Florida Salvation Army who says his organization is ready to deploy helpers to provide help and relief for those affected by Hurricane Helene.
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The Salvation Army is ready to help in several states.
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Steven Hartzuk is Emergency Disaster Services Director
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for the Salvation Army's Florida Division,
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a long title there and an important title nonetheless.
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The Salvation Army has been preparing for several days.
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You're now in Tampa.
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How are you guys and how are your team staying safe?
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Hi, first, thank you, Melissa and Ariella for having me.
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I appreciate it.
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So we are staying safe.
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We're hunkering down, riding out the storm.
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We have our personnel ready to deploy
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as soon as it's safe to do so.
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We are coordinating, communicating
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with emergency management officials
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and other partner organizations.
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And we're ready to provide service delivery
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as soon as we can post landfall to those that are impacted.
00:46
Where are you prepared to mobilize this evening
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if you plan to do that and then even beyond?
00:53
So we have locations all across the state
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and each of our local units that are in the areas
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where we expect impacts,
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they are ready to support their communities
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immediately following the storm's path.
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We have personnel staged
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along with an incident management team
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and mobile feeding units in Lakeland right now.
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And as soon as first light,
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we will begin rolling those resources out.
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And we're looking at deploying those resources
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to where the most heavily impacted areas
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are realized so that we can start serving
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those individuals immediately following.
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And where are you focused with those greatest needs
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when you're talking about the breadth of this storm?
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Because it is quite expansive.
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Yeah, it is.
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And that is one of the things
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that we're definitely taking seriously.
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We have local Salvation Army units
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that are prepared all along the coast
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from Port Charlotte northward.
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And then we'll be mobilizing,
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we have two incident management teams
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along with about 23 mobile feeding units
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that we'll be mobilizing to go into the area of landfall
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and those surrounding areas.
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And it's hard to tell exactly where that is,
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but as the cone gets more realized and we know the path,
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right now we're planning to establish base of operations
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in Tallahassee and in Live Oak.
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We know those areas will be significantly impacted,
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but we also are prepared to serve communities
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along the coast that are impacted
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with surge and other needs.
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And, you know, we can't discount
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or write off any tornado concerns.
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So we have units across the state
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that can support any response needed throughout.
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