and don t be sprurprised if the is a road open now, it is not going to be staying open. and you will see some roads closed and that is something that we are watching carefully as the water flow, and we are working with all of the team members here, and secretary hall. of the 550 roads closed, 500 of those are in columbia, and in the columbia area. and dps has responded to 2700 total calls. and 910 were collisions that they the responded to. the biggest challenges that we have faced is following the wave of the a water from the midlands down to the coast, and the road closures trying to monitor thosea and make sure that we have monitored those, and now, we are getting to the area of downed tree limbs, and anything in the way, and we are getting into the assessment, and the recovery mode and a lot of that is assessing the damage to start making good decisions on how we
a great deal in terms of staging events and staging personnel, rather, and making sure that we can respond quickly because basically that s what we want to do is once we do get the request, we want to be able to reduce the response time. so thank you very much. i want to add to something to director stenson s remarks. a lot of this was pre-planned as we got the weather reports early on and we started to bring resources in on thursday. we have excess resources waiting for assignments right now. the resources are there. do not be concerned that we re going to run out of resources. the governor s done a good job to get all of us to get ahead of that curve so we are going to be prepared for future missions. so resources are in good shape. thank you. thank you, general. now we ll turn it over to secretary hall.
we are continuing to assess, blossom and gervais street in the area and down the street from the lake murray dam. safety is our top priority and we request unless we have to for emergency situations we request that there is no travel in the roads at this time. gove governor? thank you, secretary hall. now i ll turn it over to director smith with the department of public safety. thank you, governor. good afternoon. as the governor mentioned earlier, please stay off the roads. as i said before, that s the best advice that we can give you to stay home and stay off the roads. the governor also mentioned the phrase turn around, don t drown. we seriously mean that. there are dangers underneath that standing water, again, down power line, tree branches and dangerous chemicals. so we ask that you not use water for recreational purposes. you never know what s in that
streets downstream from the dam. again, safety is our top priority and we request that unless you absolutely have to for emergency situations, we request that there s no travel on the roads at this time. governor? thank you, secretary hall. now we ll turn it over to director smith with the department of health and safety. thank you, governor. good afternoon. as the governor mentioned earlier, please stay off the roads. as i said, that s the best advice that we can give you to stay home and stay off the roads. the governor also mentioned the phrase turn around, don t drown. we seriously mean that. there are dangers underneath that standing water. again, downed power lines, branches and dangerous chemicals. we ask you not to use the water for recreational purposes. you never know what is in that water. we will continue to work with
do is once we do get the request, we want to reduce the response time. so, thank you very much. i wanted to add something to director stenson s remarks. a lot of this was preplanned as we got the weather reports early on and we started bringing resources in on thursday. we have excess resources waiting for assignments right now, so the resources are there. do not be concerned that we re g going to run out of resources. the governor has done a great job of getting all of us to get ahead of that curve so we are going to be prepared for future missions. so resources are in good shape. thank you. thank you, general. and now we ll turn it over to secretary hall of d.o.t. thank you, governor. with regards with the transportation network in the state, we have obviously closed