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the fema administrator reached out to our team. there has been federal response. we appreciate that. i don t know if you want to mention anything else on the federal side. normally, we re dealing with them mostly post storm. absolutely. we have emergency support functions. if you look around the room, anything from sheltering, mass care, logistics, planning, law enforcement, energy sector. so these are all subject matter experts that we bring in to this room so that when a situation arises, it s immediately an answered, immediately handled and resourced. we have a database through web eoc where the counties where they see ab issue arise, it comes to this desk behind us.
conducted by the national guard. how does that even work? how are they going through this? they re the only people allowed in these areas, i should note. what are they seeing so far? yeah, you know, we re assisting the police department and fire department, other first responders. we have 30 soldiers and airmen from the hawaii national guard assisting with that mission. we have another 30 assisting the police with the check points, just guarding the area to keep people out. the public is not allowed in there yet. and it s going to take months for the process to begin recovery. you know, we ve got to go in first building the building house to house, block by block, and look for bodies. we have a wide search and rescue team that that s their specialty. fema and with the federal government s help, they re sending people as well. a lot of the emergency support functions coming down. we re going to have to bring in counselors and chaplains to assist with our soldiers and airmen who see wh