WELCOME

Welcome to the Florida State Emergency Response Team Information page maintained by the External Affairs Office of the Florida Division of Emergency Management. This page will offer day to day information regarding emergency management activities, statewide hazards and other preparedness events throughout the State of Florida and nation. During disasters this blog will be updated with the most current information on the disaster, related hazards, evacuations and other protective actions being recommended by state and local emergency management agencies. Our goal is to provide clear and concise information to the media and general public daily.

In the right hand column of this blog are twitter feeds from our State Watch Office which operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year monitoring hazards throughout the State of Florida. Twitter feeds are also available from our State Meteorological Unit and our Office of External Affairs. Please feel free to follow us if you "tweet" regularly as well.

We also welcome any input or suggestions that you may have to improve this blog and the products included in it. Please email suggestions regarding the blog to FLSERTInfo@gmail.com. Thank you for taking the time to follow our blog and we look forward to hearing from you in the near future. As we approach the height of the 2009 Hurricane Season, which is September 10th, please take a minute to watch the following video message from Interim Director Ruben D. Almaguer: