 Coming up, neighbor helping neighbor. California has answered the call to aid in the response to fires in the West and Hurricane Harvey now with Hurricane Irma aiming toward Florida. What happens next? It's really our responsibility to support our other states when they've got these kinds of events. Find out how California balances assisting other states while keeping enough resources back at home and where training is done to be ready even before the request is made on this edition of Inside Look. Call is almost here and temperatures usually start cooling down, but recent heat waves across California are making this feel like a never ending summer. Californians are flocking to rivers and lakes throughout the state and without one of these jackets you might need one of those guys. It was here on a warm sunny day in May that members of the Sacramento City Fire Department navigated swift moving rapids down the American River to practice vital training techniques. We're always training for that sudden, no notice, sudden event where it's a fast rising water event where maybe people are trying to evacuate because the dam broke because it's flooding, the levee broke, whatever that situation might be, and they're trying to evacuate. Just three months later those skills were called upon some 1,900 miles away to aid in the response of one of the worst hurricanes to hit the U.S. in the past decade. Marine Harvey ravaged southeast Texas, displacing thousands and setting new rainfall records. Back in May, the swift water training was executed for this exact type of scenario. Sacramento Fire Department, OES, FEMA USAR, we respond to these high water events we'll call them, whether it's floods from hurricanes or massive storms that we've seen over this last winter. These are the teams that are going to respond to the incidents. At Harvey Made Landfall, eight urban search and rescue teams were deployed from California to Texas within a three-day span. A follow-up request from the state of Texas launched two additional swift water teams to join the response efforts. Swift water teams from Ventura County and Long Beach City conducted waterborne wide area search operations. ATVs and K9 teams were also used to search for victims, and teams performed welfare checks on residents still living in flooded areas. But always, we have to come back, even after flood recedes, and go to those houses and make sure that no one was left behind, nobody was found, that still needed help, or that their condition changed from being okay two or three days ago, now they're in trouble and they were out of food and water or had some medical emergency or something else happened. As searches and cleanup were ongoing for Harvey, another potentially devastating hurricane was forming in the Atlantic. Irma, a Category 5 hurricane and its projected 180 mile per hour winds, threatened to pound Florida and nearby islands. While work continued in Texas, California was prepared to reshift personnel to the east to respond to Irma when called upon. It's not uncommon, it hasn't been unheard of to have three or four hurricanes come in, you know, within pretty close proximity, time-wise, and have the systems scrambled to meet each of the scenarios and always keep capability back here in California. So what's left? Does California assist two states in response to hurricanes and also keep enough resources here and reserve in the event of a disaster back home? Are we still protected? Managing those resources and requests is often a delicate task. Our job here at the Office of Emergency Services is to constantly manage resources and what we call drawdown. We look at all of the events that are currently taking place within the state, across the country and around the world. We look at what requests are made to us from other locations and we're constantly balancing the number of resources available to the needs that there are. For now, Californians watch from afar, hoping for the best for those already affected in Texas and for those in the path of another devastating hurricane in Florida. In time, the phone will ring again, a request will be made, and California will answer the call, just as another state will do, the same for Californians when needed. In this effort of one team, one fight as a national system, a national mutual aid system, it's really our responsibility to support our other states when they've got these kinds of events as they would support us if we were to have a major earthquake or another kind of event here. That's it for this week's Inside Look. For all of us here at Cal OES, I'm Jonathan Goodell. Visit our online newsroom at oesnews.com to learn more about this program and get the latest news and information from our team. 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