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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.
fema is doing everything we can to support this historic event, and it is incredibly difficult. we are working across multiple lines of effort in close coordination with maui county and the state. we re talking about emergency services, mass care, critical infrastructure, and temporary housing. fema has activated a program called transitioning housing assistance. right now this temporary housing is helping people move out of shelters and into hotels. this is actively happening right now, so that s a first step. but we ll also be working long-term with survivors on longer term challenges, and there are a lot of them including taking necessary steps to begin to allow people to think about rebuilding on their land. we know that this area has incredible historic
mass care, critical infrastructure and housing among others. we have more than 600 federal personnel on the ground right now in maui, and another 100 deployed. this includes fema urban search and rescue teams who are actively working in the hardest hit areas right now with search dogs, trying to locate the remains of survivors. i was with miguel almaguer s crew yesterday in lahaina, it s a devastating scene there. people had to run for their lives and seek shelter anywhere they could. fema is working directly with survivors, and we have been doing that for the last few days. we have already approved about 1,300 households for assistance and provided about $2.3 million in money to help these survivors jump start their recovery. that s just temporary solutions now. so we re working in the shelters with our disaster survivor assistance crews one on one. we re opening a disaster recovery center where people can come meet with fema one on one,