Teams from Escambia County Emergency Operations and the Sheriff’s Office have headed to Madison County to help with recovery efforts.
- Madison County is east of Tallahassee and has a population of 18,519. The median income for a household in the county was $26,533, and the median income for a family was $31,753. About 18.90% of families and 23.10% of the population were below the poverty line, according to Wikipedia.
On “Real News with Rick Outzen” this morning, Escambia County Public Safety Director Eric Gilmore said, “We were supposed to leave originally at 5:30 awith the sheriff’s office and go to Liberty County to assist them as a storm made landfall last night as a Category 4 with 140-mph winds. Liberty woke up this morning and decided that ‘Hey, we did not get impacted as bad as we thought we were,’ So we had to adjust fire.”
He continued, “This morning Travis Tompkins, my emergency manager, worked for the State EOC to identify any other needs and what counties might need us. We got a request this morning from Madison County. So my crew just rolled out minutes ago heading to Madison County with a mobile command and a contingency of emergency managers, emergency management personnel to assist Madison County. The sheriff’s office left ahead of us; they’re already down range in Tallahassee. We will meet up with them, and we’re all going to be together in Madison County working as one big Escambia contingence.”
ANOTHER POSSIBLE STORM
Gilmore warned that his team is monitoring another disturbance in the Yucatan Pennisulat area. “There’s something we’re watching for development down in the Yucatan that’ll be through next week and nto early the following week. It looks like it’s kind of taking the same playbook (as Helene) of getting in the Gulf, lingering around, forming into something that may intensify and grow. So we need to watch that one. If you’ve been prepared for this one, you’ll be prepared for the next one and we appreciate you doing that.
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