Staged. we re also arranging more fuel to come in by truck, just to make up for whatever may not be coming in through the normal course of business with things like the port of tampa being closed. and so there s a lot of fuel that has been arranged to be here and our goal is to not have any major fuel interruptions. terms of communications, there s 500 plus star link internets ready for deployment to places that need to be. there s already been almost 250 that have been deployed so as affected areas need that connectivity, florida division of emergency management is going to work to provide that. we just lost the feed of governor ron desantis, he s giving updates on what is now a category 4 storm from tallahassee. we ll take you bake to him as
Being closed. and so there s a lot of fuel that has been arranged to be here and our goal is to not have any major fuel interruptions. in terms of communications, there is 500-plus star link internets ready for deployment to places that need to be. there has already been almost 250 that have been deployed. so affected areas need that connectivity. florida division of emergency management is going to work to provide that. they also have 3,000 generators staged and ready to surge for areas that need some power. now, if you are using a generator in your personal home, please do not run that generator inside your home, do not run it inside your garage. it must be run outside your house. it needs to be at least 20 feet away from doors and windows. and you have to point the exhaust away from your home. we do not want to see any fatalities as a result of misuse of generators. so there s a lot of people that
Port of tampa being closed and so there s a lot of fuel that has been arranged to be here, and our goal is to not have any major fuel interruptions. in terms of communications, 500 plus starlink internets ready tore deployment to places that need to be. there s already been almost 250 that have been deployed so as affected areas need that connectivity florida division of emergency management will work to provide that and have 3,000 generators staged and ready to surge for areas that need power. now, if you re using a generator in your personal home, please do not run that generator inside your home. do not run it inside your garage. it must be run outside your house. it needs to be at least 20 feet away from doors and windows and you have to point the exhaust away from your home. we do not want to see any fatalities as a result of misuse of generators. so there s a lot of people that are on deck right now.
Worth of gasoline, and sometimes you get fuel interruptions and sometimes you don t, but we want to make sure we can fill that gap. we have rescue teams activated, and that s close to 600 search and rescue personnel. we hope to not have to need those folks. we hope nobody ends up in distress once the storm hits, and if there is we will have folks that go out there. we already mentioned a storm that is hitting late morning and early afternoon, we will get calls as we get into the evening hours. we will be doing rescues at night as well, and that s typically not the way you want to do it because there will be downed power lines and certain hazards and it will make it more difficult for the personnel, but we will be there and get the job done. we are already delivering things like water, mras and tarps to local communities, and shelters
Mission requests that the state is coordinating, and those requests have been either fulfilled or will be fulfilled some time during today. we have staged a lot of gasoline. 420,000 gallons of gasoline. sometime you get fuel interruption, and sometimes you don t. but we will be prepared if there are fuel interruptions to fill the gap. we have all eight of the urban search and rescue teams activated which is close to 600 search and rescue personnel. we hope not to need those folks, and we hope that nobody is in distress once the storm hits, but we will have folks who will be out there, and kevin guthrie has mentioned today that a storm hitting late morning or early afternoon, you will end up getting calls as get into the evening hours, and we re going to be doing the rescues at night as well, and this is typically not the way that you want to do it, because there is going to be