mercy, ambulance service. we re trying to get through this. i think it goes back to commissioner carson s initial statements. let these guys do their job. try to get infrastructure back on. we had water issues. we re working through those as we speak now. the police department and the fire department are trying to get in and assess these areas. let them do their job. there will be time to look at the damage later. try to get all the information to us. appreciate you all. okay. now we d like to take an opportunity, you ve heard from officials with the city and the county. we re very fortunate to have state officials that support us here in canadian county and we have our senator ron justice that s here this morning. we want to let him know how much we appreciate him and give him an opportunity to make a comment. thank you very much. on we behalf of the state of oklahoma, i want to say how much we appreciate the work of those
this place is just amazing to watch everybody com together. the sheriff s office, primarily the emergency management crews, red cross, salvation army was supplying food this morning, as they are the rest of the day today at various locations. commissioner carson and i have each had numerous phone calls from other county commissioners around the state asking what they can do to help. we re trying to get the situation evaluated and determine where we can use the help as we need it. there s a lot of help available out there. and it s just been a great to be a part of it to see this effort come together. like phil said, that s pretty much what the crews are doing. i won t reiterate that. i m not sure wes? turn it over to someone else. ken brown, police chief city of el reno. again, all the responders reported, responded initially.
services. at this time what i d like to do is turn the mike over to the county commissioners, jack stur it and phil carson are both available. the district 3 county commissioner. right after the storm ended last night, we got ahold of all of our workers, brought them back in, organized them into 12-hour shifts. and basically, what we re doing is to install and repair traffic control signs to block traffic into washed out areas, areas where there s high line wires, electric wires that s down on the ground. we do road and bridge repair because there was a heavy amount of rain with this storm. and a lot of the approaches to the bridges are washed out and