Florida Fairs helping in preparation and aftermath of Hurricane Irma Summary of Involvement by Florida Fairs:
Our Florida Fairs: Served as staging grounds for their local power companies, tree removal companies, out of state power and tree removal com- panies, the National Guard, County EMS Services, Red Cross volunteers and services, MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa Port Au- thority, local sheriff offices, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, FEMA, local bus companies, and other local county services. Many Fairs also served as standby facilities for the companies above but were not used depending on their location.
Served as shelters for horses and other animals, Opened their RV parks, shower facilities, and offices to distribute supplies, provided a place with air conditioning and usage of power for charging phones, provided meals for those in need (both supplies and cooked meals)
Data provided by individual fairs: Lake County Fair: Duke Energy is using the Lake County Fairgrounds, staging equipment, fuel distributions, supplies and feeding workers on the grounds.
Served as shelters for evacuees from the Miami Area and Key West, homeless and those with special needs, workers for compa- nies involved in the relief efforts.
Manatee County Fairgrounds Manatee County Fairgrounds is being used as a staging area for dozens of Alabama Power crews helping FPL restore electricity to our area. FPL esti- mates that 95 percent of Manatee County homes will have power restored by Tuesday and ALL Manatee County custom- ers will be back online by Wednesday.
Hillsborough County Fairgrounds – The Show Must Go On!
Hillsborough County
Suwannee County Fair: Our fairgrounds are owned by the county, our office building is under our control. The various buildings were used as shelters, EOC used it for a staging area for supplies delivered and our office having a large commercial kitchen with a walk in cooler was used by the Red Cross to cook meals. If you need anything else let me know.
Manatee County
Highlands County Fair: the main building (Convention Center) on the fairgrounds was used as a Hurricane Shelter for Irma. The shelter opened on 9/9 ahead of the storm and did not close down until 9/18, I believe we had approximately 500 people who used the building as a shelter. FEMA representatives also used the building as a staging area for registration/filing until they could open up more long term locations. The Red Cross and local county offices also utilized our buildings. The National Guard utilized our grounds as a staging area for deployment to different regions that needed assistance and the local newspaper set up shop in one room of the convention center as their dis- tribution center sustained damage and they were unable to use their building. I think that covers everything in a nutshell...our grounds sus- tained some damage but nothing major or structural with the exception of missing shingles on some of the outbuildings. Considering we were right in the worst part of the storm we were incredibly lucky.
Putnam County Fair: We currently have our Expo Hall being used as a FEMA Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) where residents come to register for assistance for damages and food loss from IRMA. They have been open for about 10 days so far and will be here through Monday. Also, part of our parking area is being used as a debris staging site. The clean-up contractors that have been hired and brought in to work as
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