Jeb Bush Governor THE STATE OF FLORIDA State Emergency Response Team www.floridadisaster.org Craig Fugate State Coordinating Officer FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE-REVISED CONTACT: Public Information-ESF14 September 2, 2004 (850) 921-0384 Time: 4:00 p.m. HURRICANE FRANCES BRIEFING SHEET As of 4:00 p.m., September 2, 2004 ***The information below represents the best information available at the time of this release. Floridians are encouraged to contact their local authorities for additional information as it becomes available.** The State Emergency Operations Center (EOC) is activated to Level 1 requiring full scale activation of State Emergency Response Teams. Personnel with the Division of Emergency Management and all primary and support agencies will staff all Emergency Support Functions (ESF) around the clock. Many of the ESF duties focus on disaster recovery efforts and provide after-the-fact assistance such as: search and rescue supplying food, water, ice, shelter and showers monitoring power outages guarding businesses and streets securing and supplying food, water, ice, shelters and showers determining evacuation routes locating cell and satellite phones to dispatch mapping routes to water and wastewater treatment plants and coordinating with local disaster recovery offices, utility services, law enforcement and military Early actions underway regarding Hurricane Frances include: County Evacuations -- Mandatory Palm Beach: Thursday, September 2, 2:00 p.m. Brevard: Thursday, September 2, 2:00 p.m. Martin: 9/03 12:00 noon-mobile homes, low lying areas St. Lucie: Thursday, September 2, 12:00 noon : Thursday, September 2, 12:00 noon- Broward: Barrier Islands and mobile homes-thursday, September 2, 2:00 p.m. Okeechobee: Thursday, September 2, 7:00 a.m.
Volusia: Friday, September 3, 9:00 a.m. (Thursday, September 2, 4:00 p.m. Voluntary) Flagler: 9/03 am low laying areas and mobile homes Hardee: low lying areas, mobile homes, homes damaged by Charley Hernando: 9/04 AM mobile homes, low lying areas Miami-Dade: 9/02 2 p.m. Zones A and B Monroe: 9/02 1p.m. for visitors, RV s and mobile home parks Martin: 9/02-residents east of US1, all mobile homes and low lying areas Seminole: 9/02 6pm Voluntary Evacuations Collier County-3:00 p.m. 9/02 East of I-95 for mobile homes; medically needy w/no caregivers Desoto-9/03 8:00 a.m. Osceola: 9/02 Mobile homes and low lying areas Hospitals Evacuated and Closed Cape Canaveral Hospital Wuesthoff Medical Center Healthsouth Treasure Coast REHA Avante at Melbourne, Inc. Health Center of Merritt Island Palm Garden of Vero Beach Water s Edge Extended Care Martin Memorial Medical Center Good Samaritan Medical Center in West Palm Beach Sandypines-Tequesta Savannas Hospital-St. Lucie County Florida Hospital-Oceanside-Ormond Beach-Planning to evacuate Avante At Melbourne nursing faculty-planning to evacuate Health Center of Merritt Island nursing facility-planning to evacuate Atlantic Healthcare Center nursing facility-vero Beach Palm Garden of Vero Beach- nursing facility-planning to evacuate Harbours Edge nursing facility Delray Beach-planning to evacuate Lutheran Haven Nursing Home-Ovieda-planning to evacuate Vicars Landing Nursing Home-Ponte Vedra Beach- planning to evacuate Florida Shores of Melbourne assisted living facility Quality Lifestyles-East Oaks-Palm Bay The Place at Vero Beach-assisted living facility County School Closings, Thursday, September 2 and Friday, September 3 Elementary, Middle and High Brevard Broward Collier Flagler Florida School for the Deaf & Blind
Martin Miami Dade Monroe Okeechobee Palm Beach St. Lucie Volusia County School Closings, Friday, September 3 Elementary, Middle and High Charlotte Citrus DeSoto Duval Glades Hardee Hendry Hernando Highlands Lake Lee Manatee Marion Orange Osceola Pasco Pinellas Polk Putnam Sarasota Seminole St. Johns Sumter Community College Closings, Thursday, September 2 Brevard Broward Daytona Beach Edison Florida Keys Miami-Dade Palm Beach Valencia
Community College Closings, Friday, September 3 Central Florida, Noon Hernando, Noon Hillsborough, Noon Florida Community College at Jacksonville Lake City, Noon Lake Sumter Manatee North Florida Polk Santa Fe South Florida Seminole St. Johns River Colleges with Shelter Facilities Brevard CC Daytona Beach CC- 3 campuses activated Deland, Daytona & Deltona Pensacola CC- only special needs St Johns River CC- only Orange Park Campus South Florida CC- DeSoto & Hardee campuses have already been activated; and the University Center of the main campus (Highlands Campus) will be activated tomorrow UNIVERSITY INFORMATION Florida A & M University FAMU College of Law is closed as of Noon on Thursday, September 2. Other campuses fully operational. Florida Atlantic University Classes cancelled as of 6:00 a.m. Thursday, September 2. Campus closed as of 1:00 p.m. Thursday, September 2. Florida Gulf Coast University Classes and activities are cancelled throughout the weekend and until further notice. Dining services will be available through 2 p.m. Thursday, September 2. All nonessential personnel may leave the campus and campus services will end at 3 p.m. Thursday, September 2. FGCU students living in campus housing will be evacuated to Alico Arena. Florida International University Classes cancelled as of 11:00 p.m. Wednesday, September 1. Campus closed as of 1:00 p.m. Thursday, September 2. All university events cancelled.
New College of Florida Classes have been cancelled for Friday, September 3. Campus will remain open for business until noon, Friday, September 3. University of Central Florida Classes cancelled as of 10:00 p.m. Wednesday, September 1. Campus will remain open until 5:00 p.m. Thursday, September 2. University of Florida All classes and scheduled activities are cancelled for Friday, September 3. All non-essential administrative offices will close at noon on Friday, September 3. The home football game scheduled for Saturday, September 4 is postponed. University of North Florida Classes cancelled and campus closed as of noon Thursday, September, 2. University of South Florida All campuses will be open as usual on Thursday, September 2. USF Lakeland campus will be closed Friday, September 3. USF Tampa and St. Petersburg campuses will be open as usual Friday, September 3. Classes will be canceled at the USF Sarasota/Manatee campus Friday, September 3. Personnel should report to the campus Friday morning but the campus will close at noon. Florida State University Campus fully operational. Decision about FSU vs University of Miami football game is expected after 4:00 p.m. today. University of West Florida Campuses fully operational. County Hotel Status Charlotte-No host capabilities Collier-full Columbia -- Full Suwannee -- Full Orange -- 11,000 rooms available
Gadsden-no availability Hardee-no availability Hillsborough-Full Levy-near full Madison-full Manatee-full Marion-full Pinellas-full Suwannee-full Taylor-full Law Enforcement and Military Support 64 armories in 67 counties on standby Transportation Tolls suspended on the Turnpike from Florida City to Wildwood; in both directions on the Sawgrass Expressway in Broward County; and on Westbound I- 75/Alligator Alley, between Naples and Fort Lauderdale Turnpike is experiencing heavy traffic volumes County Government Closures Flagler Brevard Volusia Okeechobee Palm Beach Broward Osceola-closed on Friday Seminole-closed on Friday Orange-closed on Friday Marion-closed on Friday Monroe Polk-closed on Friday St. Lucie Union Boil Water Notices Arcadia Sarasota Power We are asking all residents to have contact information for your local building inspector. Should storm damage interrupt the power supply to your home or business, weather heads and meters must be inspected before utilities will return power to the property. Contact the building division of your local county government for more information.
Shelters Shelters open statewide-3 Number of beds available-331 Number of special needs shelters open-1 Number of persons in SN-90 SN beds available-60 ###