they are asking you to evacuate or stay in place, they are going to have the best information you need to make sure you can protect you and your family. we are in close coordination with the governor s team, and we have staff that are in california all the time and embedded in the office. we have staff that are working with them side by side right now. california is a very capable state with a lot of resources, but we have also moved in additional resources just in case it exceeds capability to quickly come in and said work is asked. the biggest thing right now is people need to take this to storm serious, and they need to make sure that they are not putting them those in harms way as the storm passes through. there taking all the steps fema would take in the face of a hurricane, so we will start to see more of that on hold in the next few hours. they are really stressing what local officials are saying here, follow the orders of your
what if she sang about preparations in response to this tropical storm, hillary? fema is at scrambling personnel to the areas they may be needed. they want to stay in close touch with local officials as the storm moves in. as you mentioned, the administrator has also briefed president biden. the white house is watching this closely and sticking with the preparedness plans in the hours to come. but what she also notably said was that this does not pull resources from hawaii. fema is able to deploy other assets and resources to make sure they can help southern california while still working on recovery in hawaii. what she stressed above all else is that residents should take the storms seriously. take this storm serious. listen to your local officials.
speak, as best we can, the challenging part of that is staffing them, making sure we document all the human beings that are coming in, the pets and no rules and restrictions. we re urging everyone to get out of zone b, get to a shelter, we re providing public transportation so we re in full force. how long is that public transportation going go? i know you ve told people call 211 if they need help to get to a shelter. you ve tried the number and it s tough getting through. we are certainly experiencing overwhelming volume on the 211 line. we urge all citizens to continue the dial 211. we can safely deploy transportation units up to about 3:00 p.m. today. we ve got to be concerned about safety of our drives and our first responders. so for a lot of the people who are calling 211 who are now going to the shelters today, these are people who thought they would ride it out at home and as the storm shifted that all changed. tension is rising and rightfully so, i m proud of our citizen