Recovery

The fire district has around 125 personnel prepared to go out in the storm conditions from its eight operating stations, but will only send people until sustained winds reach 45 mph.

Beginning Friday night, heavy rains are expected to begin falling over the area as the storm makes its way up the eastern seaboard from Florida.

The governor said he was acting on a recommendation from the state’s Emergency Operations Command in anticipation of Hurricane Matthew.

About 1.5 million Floridians live in evacuation zones, and Scott repeatedly urged those remaining to leave immediately.

Nearly 8 million Floridians, not counting tourists, sat in Matthew’s potential path under a hurricane or tropical storm warning Wednesday evening.

A team will coordinate receiving tractor-trailers full of commodities - blankets, generators, water, food and cots - to divvy up and roll out to communities in need across North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. The tractor-trailers are expected to arrive at Fort Bragg on today.

The agency has dipped into other programs to make up the shortfall — including programs that aim to prevent wildfires in the first place.

The Category 4 storm’s path ticked slightly westward for the second day in a row as it pounded Haiti, Jamaica and the eastern tip of Cuba, bringing its trajectory closer to the east coast of Florida.

At 2 p.m. Tuesday, the storm was located about 55 miles south, southwest of the eastern end of Cuba and moving about 10 mph. Cuban authorities reported tropical storm force winds already hitting the island. Sustained winds remained at 145 mph.

His expertise is in collapse rescue, including the skills he used after 9/11, when he saw first-hand how emergency management was planned out and coordinated after a disaster.

Following the ice storms that struck southwest Minnesota in April 2013, Nobles Cooperative Electric applied for financial assistance from FEMA to cover the cost of damage to power lines and poles.

The sheriff's office is among more than 80 law enforcement agencies, colleges and other government agencies across the country that have been granted or applied for permits to fly the aircraft.

A swarm of seismic activity at the Salton Sea that began a week ago prompted scientists to say there was an elevated risk for a big San Andreas fault earthquake.

A slightly strengthened Matthew had sustained winds of 145 mph late Monday, up from 140 mph earlier in the day.

Modeling and simulation is a major part of the future of emergency management.