DOL is offering 2 - 24 ft. Box trucks with labor and drivers to assist with transportation needs. DOL is assisting food bank operations with printing needs. OGS is evaluating FEMA request for 40,000 square feet of administrative and warehouse space. OGS is providing food for the ARC shelters from the OGS storage facility in Malone.
Additional personnel are on alert.
Local offices of the aging in Jefferson, St. Lawrence, Clinton, Essex, and Lewis counties all have representatives at the local DAC's or at the local Emergency Management Office. Each of the counties affected have identified the frail elderly in need of help such as oxygen, food or evacuation to shelters. In addition, each county is working with its Public Health Nursing Service to visit the homes of the elderly. State Education reports that 8 schools are closed in Clinton Co. through Wednesday. Jefferson Co. Reports 11 districts closed.