Federal Surplus Property Program

Hurricane Harvey Response Efforts

Texas Facilities Commission

http://tfc.state.tx.us/FSPFederal.surplus@tfc.state.tx.us

Hurricane Harvey

Truck headed to a heavily affected area of Brazoria County from our San Antonio Warehouse.

Vehicles and supplies headed to Houston from the San Antonio Warehouse.

Two trucks that left the San Antonio Warehouse at 8:30PM on Wednesday (9/6/17) and were saving lives by 8:00AM the next morning on the east side of Houston.

CDC Property at our Austin Warehouse the week following Hurricane Harvey.

Hurricane Harvey

Park Board of Trustees of the City of Galveston

Oak Island-Double Bayou VFD -Dump truck

- City of Baytown – received 13 LMTV cargo trucks to help replenish their fleet that was devastated.

- Austin Police Department –received 416 cots & 30 luggage bags.

City of Katy – received 18 floodlights and this LMTV cargo truck, and was among one of the areas with the most flooding problems. This truck arrived at our warehouse on Friday 9/8, and was picked up by City of Katy on Monday 9/11

Jefferson County Drainage District No. 6 (Beaumont) - Area had 45+ inches of rain in 5-day period.

- DD6 is not a typical "first responder,” but did aid multiple gov’t agencies including City of Beaumont.

- Using equipment acquired from FSP:- Transported large sandbags from the Sabine

Pass area using trailers and trucks to help save the City of Beaumont's water treatment plant.

- Used trailers & 140-ton Manitowoc crane to haul and load large boxes to set water pumps on at the City of Beaumont's water district.

- Retrofit a 6-inch water pump to provide the only source of water to fill fire trucks for the entire City of Beaumont. It was deemed so important that the fill site was manned 24 hours a day by fire department personnel.

- Used 5-ton and 2.5-ton trucks during and after the storm for recovery and observation of the District's assets and projects.

- Used a 15-ton crane to remove 6,000-lb electric motors that had been submerged by floodwaters. This work helped to get the water flowing again in Beaumont.

From Darin Auer, Shop Supervisor, “DD6 has always worked with local city and county entities during emergency events such as Hurricane Harvey, and we feel that the Federal Surplus property we have acquired through your program was truly an asset, and facilitated our ability to aid other in a time of great despair. This equipment never let us down through the entire event. It is also worth mentioning that DD6 could have never purchased most of this equipment out of our budget if it had not been for FSP. DD6 would have helped during the storm no matter what, but with the equipment purchased through the surplus system, I feel like DD6 really made a difference.”

National U.S. Armed Forces Museum (Houston)

Museum volunteers, many of whom are veterans, are meeting after a long day of work helping with the hurricane relief. Some of the vehicles pictured were acquired from FSP over the years.

Daytime rescues in Northeast Houston performed by museum volunteers using vehicles (HEMMETS, 2.5-ton & 5-ton cargo trucks & Humvees) provided by FSP.

Metropolitan Transit Authority of Houston

Carlester Chatmon, Master Mechanic, in their high-water rescue vehicle – a BMY 6x6 5-Ton Military Cargo Truck, one of their many vehicles acquired from FSP. In a joint venture between MTA & Houston PD, he used it to perform rescues, shuttle cases of blood & medical supplies to helicopters, and transport police around the city.

Military Museum of Brazoria County

Dual eligibility as museum and first responder. Has acquired many high water vehicles and two helicopters from FSP.

Johnson City Volunteer Fire Dept.

VFD volunteers traveled to Houston area to perform hundreds of high-water recuses using trucks acquired from FSP that were able to reach areas that helicopters, other trucks and even boats could not navigate.