foreign [Music] I work out at communications with the Sheriff's Office during the storm I set up costs for employees I tried to organize food and whatever else the telecommunicators need because the call volume is so intense they're constantly picking up phones and they don't have the opportunity to get up for breaks so I like to take care of them during the storm my name is Deputy Curtin during Hurricane Ian I've been working since Wednesday Thursday and Friday as today as well very hectic there's been a lot of there's been a lot of power lines out in the roadways and lots of lots of trees down cause and Hazards for for all of the drivers who are out you're definitely close to the booster Sheriff's Office signed a high water rescue team after the hurricane during the hurricane and after we respond to the several residents to well-being checks evacuating stranded residents and doing uh medical calls as well hi I'm Nicole Brenner I work here at the Volusia Sheriff's Office Communication Center I'm on 9-1-1 color Communicator past few days through and have been kind of tough for the county of Volusia but they've been holding together I just answered 911 calls throughout the night I worked the night shift six to six a.m and you know we've just been trying to get calls out to get assistance to get boats to people and you know try to triage some calls for medical over the phone until we can get assistance to them so it's been a couple days of you know tough calls but we're hanging in there Deputy Danny Clifton blue Sheriff's Office I drove the high water rescue vehicle last two nights and we'll just uh helping people out getting people out of their flooded houses and rescuing as many people as we could doing the best job we could I'm Deputy Fernandez and I responded to high water rescues hi I'm deputy adrison and throughout the hurricane I've been helping out anywhere I can Communication Center I answered 9-1-1 calls and non-emergency calls some of the calls that we took were homes that were filled with water down power lines and trees and we worked together to get the resources we had available to people as quickly as we could my name is Deputy Slover during the storm I was tasked with doing X patrols including patrolling for downed power lines stranded individuals and normal calls for service for storm-related issues I'm Sergeant Corey Charles from District 2 in DeLand and I have been patrolling the district 2 area at night preventing looters and responding to calls for service I'm a telecommunicator with the Volusia County Sheriff's Office and during the hurricane I've been down in the War Room answering all the power line calls and notifying FPL of Duke and all the power line companies and Transformer companies in the area I'm Sergeant Adam Huffman and I drove the Bearcat as a high water rescue vehicle during the storm hi I'm Deputy Welsh and during Hurricane Ian I helped District Four with flooding issues and today I am delivering supplies to our deputies that are flooded hi Deputy Blaine vanzo I'm part of the high water rescue team You've Been Working Day and Night the last few days trying to get families out of their homes that have been flooded trying to get them to dry land get their animals to safety thing they needed we're there to help my name is Deputy Royce James I'm assigned to the district six area of the county which is the berry throughout the hurricane we have been riding around assessing damage power lines down trees down damage to homes flooding traffic lights out we've been relaying all of that information to our chain of commands to delegate what resources go where to get the city up and running again on Dwayne Kim from uh my number one operator with Volusia Sheriff's Office and I've been on the floor answering emergency calls for the entirety of the storm the last couple of days now Deputy Daniels I was on the west side and responded to Osteen and Deltona areas for calls so my name is Christopher McKay I've been a call tanker here at the Volusia Sheriff's Office communications center throughout the storm primarily taking calls from citizens mostly out of state wanting to check on their loved ones and citizens here in Volusia County wanting to be evacuated and you know get help for the high waters Sheriff Chitwood here and I want to take this opportunity to thank all of our outstanding men and women whether you're in Communications whether you're part of operations or whether you're part of support the effort that you put forward during this historical storm that we had is just I just cannot describe how proud We Are of the men and women of this organization and what an outstanding job you did to protect this community and to make this organization shine so God bless all of you and I would ask for two favors I would ask you to keep our fellow Floridians in the southwest part of the state in your prayers and also keep it in prayers we have about 18 folks in our organization who suffered some type of damage some folks even lost their entire homes during this horrific storm so God bless you all thank you so much for everything that you've done for us [Music]