more funding to search and rescue teams emergency agreement with other states, and they re not shy to ask for federal help. the united states military won t stand by. as well as the big coast guard so that s a lot better with what we had to deal with katrina. the big thing with katrina the situation is hard. a lot of infrastructure is damaged, and that was a game-changer. this has impacted the levee system. sunday night you said president biden did not prove louisiana disaster preparation, which puts a lot of resources.
at getting ports open as soon as we can. that s a pretty significant source of economics in the region. let s talk about the immediate concern which is are there people out there whose lives are endangered. how do we save them. how do you coordinate with local, with state efforts, and where do you tend to focus and be most successful, at being able to use your resources? we start, this this is an ongoing process. we work every day of the year, with our local partners, in normal search and rescue operations, we do an environmental cleanups. we built these relationships over years and years, they are very strong networks, we have coast guard liaison s embedded in all the emergency operation centers, and then we have our own command systems that are set up in response. as calls come into 9-1-1, they are being sent out to the appropriate partner. and we re responding as fast as we can.
have decided to wait out the storm in their homes, and how difficult is it gonna be to figure out who might really need help most? well as we speak now, we are clearing roads, we do have some search and rescue personnel. there are people who lost roofs, and right now, we are making our way to houses where we are able to get through the driveways. we started documenting addresses. now, we are starting to clean those up. one of my assistance is probably call about 50 people. 50 people already? well, 50 people at their homes the last couple of hours, and during the storm, i said to my rescue vehicles in the middle of the storm because it was pretty close, and we were able to get rescue operations
and in mobile on either side of storms path. in addition, we put several small urban rescue response crews, throughout the region. several dozen of them are on standby as well, to go in and help many civilians that are stranded, and then we have our fleet of coast guard ships, that are off store, following behind the storm. and they will do several things. they will provide command and control platforms, for ships as the storm moves in the harbor, in the harbor starts to clear, they will deport assessments, and see if there s any shoreline notice of buoys or off station. and then our fleet of bowie tenders will also be there, they will look at those buoys, those are three line of efforts here, first we want to save, lives want to help as many people as we can, as soon as we can, next we re working on environmental response, the storm of this size there will obviously be some pollution. and hazardous materials, will work on handling that. and then finally we will look
the night, so there is danger out there, both in terms of the storm itself, but also the fact that you cannot see anything. tell me what needs to be done right now. there is search and rescue i think the difference between now and katrina 16 years ago, we have a lot more communication. people are communicating more, which means we should be able to know where they are, to navigate and to get to them. but that being said, we still got the challenge of roads that are closed with downed trees, so this is gonna be a challenge to search and rescue missions because the area that we re looking at is so large. all the way through new orleans. right now, there s been quite a few reports of a place called