FEMA Daily Ops Briefing

spokane county wildfires - Communications: ▪ Limited
telecommunications due to impacted cell towers in the area surrounding
the Gray Fire ▪ Eastern State Hospital: Primary and secondary fiber
cut; limited connectivity restored - Situation: Lifelines continue to
trend upward indicating improving conditions. Scattered showers
expected to fall over the fire on Tuesday with a 50 to 60% chance for
wetting rains. On August 18, 2023, the Gray and Oregon Fires in
Spokane County, Washington, began. The Oregon Fire is burning at the
Pend Oreille County boundary and the Gray Fire is burning on public
and private land near Medical Lake (pop 5,060). As fire speeds drop,
better understanding of how the fires will affect the infrastructure
will be available. In Spokane County, there are now 7 other smaller
wildfires burning. - 345 homes destroyed

maui county - 115 dead - 67 injured - starting to search the Harbor

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critical fire wx in central texas today - today will have no fire wx areas

hilary info - Lifelines: (Post-Tropical Cyclone Hilary SLB as of 6:00
p.m. ET, Aug 21) Safety and Security: CA: ▪ USCG pre-positioning
search and rescue assets in San Diego, Sacramento, Forward Operation
Base Mugu ▪ 338 (+319) NGB personnel and 130 (+122) high-water
vehicles staged in California ▪ 10 (+7) congregate shelters in
Banning, San Marcos, Crescent City, Thermal, Yucca Valley, Yreka,
Tehachapi, Pine Valley, and Chula Vista with combined overnight
population of 42 (+33) ▪ Evacuation warning issued and approximately
9k residents evacuated from affected areas NV: ▪ 102 (+2) NGB
personnel and 24 high-water vehicles staged in Nevada. 350 additional
personnel requested with projected fulfilment by Aug 23 ▪ 2 congregate
shelters in Clark & Nye counties (Pop: 3) - 45 zip codes with degraded
telecomms - no mention of any 911 failures - no deaths - no blds
destroyed apparently - Health and Medical: Catalina Island Medical
Center sheltering-in-place; generator with 5 days of fuel on hand ▪
All 5 hospitals running under normal operations ▪ Generators, bill of
materials kits and fuel staged at DC Tracy ▪ HHS deployed 16 personnel
(5 are virtual) to support preparedness and response operations