with Assistant Fire Chief Glenn Johnson and we are in the Emergency Operations

Center and chief what can you tell us about what's going on here.

Currently we're monitoring weather conditions both inside the city and the

county - monitoring for any changes so that we can be proactive and take

measures as necessary to alert our public to keep them safe. Is there

anything that's going on right now or what can you tell us about the current

condition and how how the flooding is looking. Currently we're not at flood

stage - we're continuing to monitor however we are anticipating two to three

additional inches of rain coming through the area. We're already dealing with

ground that is saturated - however it could increase the potential for

flooding so as far as road closures we're continuing to monitor our areas

that we know are prone to flood to ensure that we're identifying them

quickly and taking appropriate measures to shut them down. What exactly is the

fire department our fire department doing to prepare and what do we have in

place should the need arise? Based on the weather predictions? We've increased our

staff and we have two four-man boat teams that are prepared to respond in

addition to that there's four other quick response teams located throughout the

county that can help augment our response or our response into other

areas. That's great and can you tell everyone a little bit about how the

Emergency Operations Center works together with all of the jurisdictions

throughout the county? Basically the Emergency Operations

Center is where all the decision-makers come together. That way they can

establish the relationships and work across lines because in an emergency

you're going to be competing for the same resources so this basically is to

help us establish that communications so that each jurisdiction or entity can be

properly or properly received the resources that they need. I'm here now

with Hannah Bleam - she is the External Affairs Officer for the Emergency

Management Agency and Hannah is going to tell us about a new program here will

you Williamson County yes right now we

have launched our Williamson Ready program Williamson Ready is a

preparedness program for our community to tap into. So you can find us at

www.williamsonready.org.