ordered to render first aid where appropriate, and treat patients in an attempt to locate suspect or suspects. at this time i can confirm multiple wounded and multiple fatalities. based on what we know right now and again very preliminary, the lone suspect in this incident is in custody and critical condition at a local hospital. it appears to be a single weapon that was used, a handgun. there were no shots fired by any of the law enforcement officers responding to the scene. we do not believe that there is an additional threat anywhere to our hartford county community. we have set up a family reunification scenter working with the county executive and the county partners at the volunteer firehouse, and again, this investigation is early. i, and the office will be happy to give you more informations it is becoming available. i ask you to keep the victims of
multiple wounded and multiple fatalities. based on what we know right now, and again, very preliminary, the lone suspect in this incident is in custody and is in critical condition at a local hospital. it appears to be a single weapon that was used, a handgun. there were no shots fired by any of the law enforcement officers responding to the scene. we do not believe that there is an additional threat anywhere to our harford county community. we set up a family reunification center working with our county partners, at the volunteer fire house this investigation is very early. i and our office will be happy to give you more information as it becomes available. again, i ask you to keep the victims of today strategy in your thoughts and prayers. also, we have to think our fellow first responders. we have responders year from the federal government who were seen within minutes. the fbi, the dea, the atf, state
of people that have left the area, but, again, our concern right now is the river flooding in the inland areas outside of myrtle beach that could potential cut off access in the days to come to our city. so what is your advice for those people who are hunkering down in those areas right now? the best thing i can tell them right now is to be patient, and just be patient. this is going to take a couple of days for us to figure out. the governor has not lifted the evacuation order, so and we re in constant communication with our county partners and state partners in reference to that. but we just want everybody to be patient, be calm, and just give us time to sort this out. bruce, do you have all of the resources you need? do you have enough support from state and federal authorities? absolutely. you know, we did the right thing
we continue to urge all north carolina residents and visitors to comply with local evacuation orders from our local jurisdictions. i would also like to thank our county partners for all their hard work as we prepare for the impacts of hurricane florence. the state emergency operation center has activated level two. we are ramping up with additional national guard as you heard the governor refer to as well as more swift water rescue boats, search and rescue task forces, helicopters, ambulances and a host of other assets to include commodities. we have positioned some of these assets forward and have staged others locally. our federal, state, volunteer and private sector partners stand ready to provide the full spectrum of disaster response capability to hurricane florence. thank you very much for your
lusk, who is here. i am going to recognize some of these for updates and then we will take your questions. so we ll begin with you. good morning, everyone. we continue to urge all north carolina residents and visitors to comply with local evacuation orders on our local jurisdictions. also like to thank our county partners for all their hard work as we prepare for the impacts of hurricane florence. the state emergency operations center is activated a level two. we anticipate going to a level one full up tonight. of course, we re an a 24-hour schedule. we re ramping up with additional national guard as you just heard the governor refer to as well as more swift water rescue boats. search and rescue task forces, helicopters, ambulances and a host of other assets to include commodities. we positioned some of these assets forward and we have staged others locally.