ready to respond and do rapid needs assessments, and other teams that are ready to do technical search and rescue to the areas that may be the hardest hit. >> you know, even when there is a mandatory evacuation, people are going to make their own individual choices, and there will be residents who did not heed the warning at the order to evacuate. what is your message to them, tonight? >> you know, hopefully you are in an area where, you know, we don't get hit as hard as predicted? we are still in a 4 to 7 foot storm surge potential. there is a point where fire rescue and law enforcement can't respond if sustained winds are at a certain level. so, we have to kind of stand by and quickly after those winds subside, sent those teams out. we ramped up our staffing at our fire stations, so we doubled down on the normal amount of people that would be