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Without power . It is not only the

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lights in the refrigerator and having

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your cell phone and your television and

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stuff . It's , it's much more basic .

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It's fresh water and sewage treatment

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plants working and what happens if

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those don't operate . Pittsburgh

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district is the only district that

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manages and oversees temporary

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emergency power missions . On behalf of

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fema . We're prepared to launch our

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teams on very little notice whether it

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is Monday morning at seven o'clock ,

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whether it's Christmas Eve , it does

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not matter . We're always ready to roll

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out the door and we are always ready to

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support the nation to get temporary

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power where it's needed . We've

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responded to all kinds of different

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disasters in the last couple of years

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since I've been here . Hurricane

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tornado , winter storms , ice storms ,

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wildfires out in the west and Midwest

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and just anything that can cause a

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power outage the people . We serve our

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local community in general , but

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specifically , it's critical public

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facilities and it starts with life

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saving facilities , hospitals ,

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emergency rooms and then life

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sustaining facilities . We've installed

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generators at dialysis centers in the

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height of COVID those facilities that

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are truly saving and maintaining

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lives during the aftermath of the

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disaster of our customer . Our planning

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and response teams are on a six hour

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recall alert . If there is a request ,

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they have six hours to start movement .

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So we can be set up and operational in

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24 to 48 hours in a disaster area upon

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a request from FEMA to provide

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temporary emergency power . And it's

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not necessarily dealing with speed and

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how quick we can get there . It's the

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efficiencies of how we can get the

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generators installed to save the

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people's lives or to reduce the amount

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of burden that is on the community

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members themselves . The Pittsburgh

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district is the sole provider of the

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temporary emergency power contract and

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the administrative needs that are

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required in order to make this program

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work . We are the experts but we must

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rely on other districts and other

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people within the U A and our

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stakeholders fema our contractors , the

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local and state P O CS to move the

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mission along . We have to have all of

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those parties involved in order to

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crack the code of miscommunication . If

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I could get one message across to the

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impacted districts of what Pittsburgh

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does for temporary emergency power , we

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are here for them every step of the way

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to enable them and resource them so

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that they can focus on their

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employees , the disaster that has just

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occurred in their backyard and their

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local partners and we can focus on

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providing temporary emergency power in

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their area and just take all of the

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administrative burden off of them . We

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take away the burden from the other

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districts we support by managing engine

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tasker conducting RSO and I for

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deploying personnel , managing funds

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and conducting fiscal close out after

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the mission is complete , regardless of

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where it happens . All temporary

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emergency power missions come to

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Pittsburgh and we provide that same

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level of support , whether it's one

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single mission or whether it's multiple

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missions over multiple areas , we

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provide that support no matter what a

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good example of that is one of the

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storms that came through in 2018 . I

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believe it was when it hit the Virgin

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Islands . And Puerto Rico , you had a

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district responsible for that area ,

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then it hit Florida and then proceeded

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to come up the coast and it came all

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the way to Virginia . So you've got

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multiple districts handling their

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individual areas . But every one of

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those tempt power missions was all

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being managed out of Pittsburgh because

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we're the experts in that field . This

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work is very fulfilling . It is the

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most fulfilling thing I think you can

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do in the Corps of engineers without

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the support of us behind the scenes .

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Uh Mission can't happen . Our

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communities benefit our fellow citizens

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that have had their lives kicked out

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from underneath of them due to a

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natural disaster or something else that

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was completely out of their control .

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They received a benefit