Members of Virginia Task Force 1, Fairfax County’s international urban-search-and-rescue team, have been deployed ahead of what is now Tropical Storm Idalia.
we continue to provide assistance through items such as laundry trailers, restroom trailers, jacks, and many, many more. the florida department will continue to support all resource request and as of this morning we had 29 individuals who had registered with fema s individual assistance program. currently, there are 22 organizations that are assisting and i want to go ahead and let you know that fema has advised me through the administrator that virginia task force 1, virginia task force 2 and ohio task force 1 are on standby awaiting any type of resource request that we may need. again, i think it s important to reiterate the point that we have all of the resources we need. we do not need anyone to self-deploy and help us. we have plenty of resources in reserve, the florida department