STATEMENT BY: Amy Zubaly, FMEA Executive Director, Regarding Preparations for Tropical Storm Debby

“As the mutual aid coordinator for Florida’s 33 public power utilities, the Florida Municipal Electric Association has been monitoring the development of now Tropical Storm Debby and has engaged our mutual aid network in advance of the landfall. On behalf of our member communities in potentially impacted areas, we called on our strong national network of public power utilities and have arranged for mutual aid to assist with restoration efforts. Mutual aid crews from other utilities are pre-positioned to assist with restoration of outages that may occur as a result of Tropical Storm Debby as soon as conditions are safe.

We remain in close communications with local, state and federal emergency response departments and are standing by to assist with power restoration to Florida public power communities that are impacted by the storm.”