 All right, well good evening and thanks for your patience the rest of the Folks up here. Okay, first Mark. Yeah, Arducci Director of the governor's office of emergency services for Governor Brown Okay, so first of all, thanks for your patience and obviously, you know, I want to You know acknowledged That the situation has been stressful. It's complex and rapidly changing and so we are doing everything We can in the effort to support Butte County and the local authorities to be able to address Mostly the displaced Folks that have been forced to evacuate as a result of the potential Conditions in the emergency spillway The governor has been closely following all of this and has been in contact with the officials that are managing the incident throughout the weekend and Again has had conversations with us here tonight Within the last hour. He has issued an emergency proclamation For the situation the proclamation will give us the ability to take all actions necessary To protect public health and to help the local officials in their effort in doing the same We also activated the state operation center What you see behind me this afternoon when the Department of Water Resources realized the problem was developing at the auxiliary spillway our 24-hour California Warning Center has also been sending notifications to counties downstream that could be affected by the any potential Rising water and or evacuations our law enforcement branch has also deployed a number of mutual aid law enforcement assets to assist Butte County Sheriff and others with the evacuations of Individuals and our fire and rescue branch has deployed a number of swift water rescue teams from throughout The northern California area to assist with any evacuations that are necessary or Any high water type of situations? We've been also working very closely with our partner agencies and state government all state agencies That have a role have been activated and are here at the state operation Center This is a combined effort in support of Butte County and surrounding counties And the Red Cross has also been engaged to support With shelters and displaced residents part of that has been The folks you see behind me. I'm gonna let each one of them talk California Highway Patrol has been very much engaged with traffic management and supported local authority the California Department of Forestry and fire protection Cal fire has been very engaged with their incident management teams and the California National Guard Has been Engaged with deploying resources that's at the ready both air assets and ground forces as necessary to support the situation so with that I'm going to turn it quickly over to each one of the Leads from the various agencies first. I'm going to turn it over to Chief Ken Pemlott The director of the California Department of Forestry and fire to protection Cal fire Good evening as Director Geller-Jucci Mentioned Cal fire deployed an incident management team to work directly with the Department of Water Resources As early as Thursday evening. We've had an incident management team jointly co-located engaged embedded with the water resources engaging in all the operations Working towards mitigating the incident in addition to that. They're not just working on Plans for the facility and the operations there, but they've been very actively engaged in contingency planning Well outside of and downstream of the facility and the evacuations and the process that occurred today Was a direct result of the contingency planning and they were prepared To provide that notification to make those evacuations based on the planning and the efforts that had gone on again This is something Cal fire is well practiced at with incident management teams Not only on wildland fires, but all hazard emergencies around the state So in addition to the the management team Cal fire as part of the mutual aid system also has numerous fire engines Hand crews and helicopters deployed and available to respond should they be needed with that I will turn it over to General Baldwin with the National Guard Thank You Chief Pemlott California National Guard has all of our resources standing by and available for the call to assist Civil authorities both in the impacted area in helping the displaced people as well as helping DWR Focus on helping to shore up this the spillway. We've deployed aviation assets We have military police that are going to be deploying to Yuba County We've also have Transportation high-water truck transportation available and we're assisting with prepared to assist with mass care and shelter of Displaced people again all of our resources are available We have over 1,200 people on duty in Northern California that are ready to go at a moment's notice And we can bring in additional resources as necessary in addition. We've been in direct contact with Leadership at the United States Northern Command So if we need additional resources from other military organizations throughout the nation, they'll be able to deploy right away And as far as our deployment of personnel We brought in an additional hundred personnel We brought in 50 from what we call Northern Division and they are assisting up in Orville They're assisting patrolling the city of Orville and they're also helping out the evacuation center. We brought in another 50 personnel 50 officers from here in the Sacramento Valley and they are assisting with Patrolling in Yuba City, Marysville, Wheatland, Gritley and Live Oak They're also helping with evacuation General law enforcement type services and any other services that may be needed Additionally to the personnel we brought in some other assets We brought in three helicopters that can assist with search and rescue and also two airplanes that can also assist with search and rescue and also provide us information on traffic control with some of the cameras that they have and We'll be evaluating overnight depending on what happens what our deployment will be for tomorrow morning Okay, so you can see that really the full power of the state of California has been made available in support of Butte County and the surrounding counties during this situation again, the Butte County Sheriff as and the local authorities have done a great job in being able to to Manage the situation these are always complex situations and All the resources you see behind me have been made available as necessary so with that be happy to answer any questions We actually mobilized the National Guard all the time for a lot of different reasons It's just the levels of deployment, you know, particularly during fire season The National Guard is tremendously a major partner with Cal Fire and OES and being able to provide aviation assets All ground firefighters, etc We use them on a number of different kinds of occasions. So really we we mobilized them pretty regular. Yeah So I would I would just add that you know We do missions across the state almost on a daily basis The last large-scale mobilization as director Guluduchi said was for wildfires in the past wildfire season We also mobilized almost 2,000 people to support the Super Bowl the last time though We did an alert for the entire California National Guard as we did today was the 1992 riots So we did in fact put out a notification not to report in but to be ready to go if needed to all 23,000 soldiers and airmen that are part of the California National Guard So we have a broad range of capability that we make available We'll be sending eight helicopters to assist With the spillway reconstruction Activities beginning tomorrow those aircraft will also be available for search and rescue if we have to move into that mode We're sending military police to assist with law enforcement and securing evacuated areas And we're also going to be sending mass care and shelter units that can shelter either responders or displaced people We so the question had to do with our time frames of starting to ratchet down after The next few few hours or a few days really that's going to be dependent upon The needs of local government our role our role in this particular case is in support of the local authorities and the evacuations That have taken place and also to support Department of Water Resources as they begin their process of of doing whatever Reconstruction or mitigation is necessary to make the situation Safe and secure So there's no longer a public safety threat The question had to do with our teams that are scattered around the the area and where the challenge Well, really we've got a lot of resources that are staged and in place I mean the idea here was that like all of us with a sort of unfolded and you know We wanted to make sure we had all the resources in front of the evolving Crisis so that we we weren't late to being able to respond Right now those resources are going to be Supported logistically it kept at the ready The biggest challenge is really making sure that we continue to stay out in front with situational awareness to make sure that we have The right resource at the right time Made available both to the county and to DWR I'm going to turn it over to the Department of Water Resources rep Gary Bardini Gary Gary Bardini Department of Water Resources deputy director When you come to an emergency event like the one we just have here We're essentially you have facilities that are compromised. It takes a bit of time to go through the assessment of it and bring them online As we work through the issues there are sometimes where there's unceased circumstances So we're right now working through those. I don't have my where lights are off Well, we have cost and ongoing maintenance and inspection activities in the department and by FERC So I'm just not sure what the circumstances were in the past Dry weather and then Yeah, so through this flood operations center we coordinate with reservoir managers and local maintaining agencies As a general practice we essentially use the reservoirs to meter water out and let the uncontrolled flows go through That'll be the kind of current practice and we see that practice in the future Obviously bringing the reservoir down is a real critical factor right now so we can basically continue this normal operations of the system