Swift Water Capability News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Operation and these incident response centers are closer to texas. we got a lot of numbers in terms of the federal response but i want to draw your attention to a handful of numbers which will really help you understand the scope of the operation. 8,800 federal employees have now been deployed to respond to hurricane harvey. number two, they have pre-positioned assets nearly three million meals and liters of waters in staging areas so they can surge them into texas once the lines of communication and transportation open up. so that tells you that this is going to be a long haul operation and they will be looking at this operation for several days. in addition, they have 1100 personnel who are part of these urban search and rescue teams and now have a swift water capability which means that they re able to move quickly into these areas to try and effect to rescues. we re a few seconds away from getting the latest update at ....

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