demand for our services is going to increase. we have pending calls we are going to try to get to. we have resources on scene now, state and federal resources. we have texas task force one and fema on board. we have 350 additional personnel and we are expecting another 350 in the next 24-48 hours, which will really assist our ability and change our response profile to be able to meet the demand. we are asking the public, again, the roads are dangerous. stay out of the roads if you don t need to be out driving or walking around. it s difficult to assess the road conditions. just a little bit of water covering the roads, we don t know what impact the rain has had. washing away the roads causes hazards. please, if you don t need to be on the road, we recommend you
serviced. we just had additional units from the state texas task force one. we have fema search and rescue task forces on scene now, which increased our deployment profile. with additional 350 personnel on scene, we re going to put them right to work because there s still plenty of work to do. still if the rescue mode at this point. but we re getting a hold of the situation as far as our commanders in the field are doing incredible work. doing incredible work managing resources and deploying them to most needed. let me ask you a few things. have you about 10 calls in queue. that s what it s been reduced to, which means if you call 911 you re not going to get through. you ve asked people not to hang up. you have 1,000 waiting to be serviced, which means those people have gotten through an told dispatchers what the problem is. trying to figure out what resource and assets you ll deploy to help them. correct.
it out on 911, not to hang up and to stay on those lines and we are seeing people pouring in from states around with their own boats trying to help and get to these people but as you mentioned the big challenge is getting to the right waterway to get to the people, various parts have become islands. how do you manage to get to these people that are in such desperate need. the coast guard has been instrumental in helping now that the national guard is also on the ground, they brought in some heavier equipment. also various states around the country have offered help, new orleans and the state of louisiana also sending people, texas task force one is now on the ground. we do have the ability to get to these people, it s just going to be a bit of a waiting game. and as griff mentioned earlier, this problem is going to happen long after the precipitation has
people off roofs, rescuing people with broken legs, diabetics that have passed owl those kinds of things, we are working around the clock with texas task force 1, we apply the helicopters, they lower themselves down, put people on hoists and lift them up. we have been getting a whole lot of reports from experts around the country, do they have some role with the military? we re seeing those other urban search and rescue teams, they re not assigned us to and we re not assigned to them directly. whatever the federal agencies are requesting from us, we re seeing several different contingencies, but we re focusing on our own research and rescue operations. there are between 125 and 200 critical rescues that are in the queue, they are priappl priorit
of that. we are working to save lives and keep as many people safe as possible. in the houston area, chris at the very same time, we are conducting search and rescue missions where the hurricane hit nerd engineer corpus christi and rockport areas. we are doing multiple duties and multiple parts of the state. i want to ask about that governor because we just had a report that may have been the community that was hardest hit. i know the damage has been so extensive that a lot of first responders haven t even been able to go in and see what has happened to people who sheltered in place. the casual i casualty count seems remarkably low so far. i hate to ask this, but do you think the casualty count to rise dramatically as first responders get into these areas. we will see. we have first responders there. we have texas task force one