Lexington Emergency Disaster Services helping out in Texas

(ABC 36 NEWS NOW) — Lexington Emergency Disaster Services has been hard at work, helping victims and those in need, in Texas.

“On Wednesday of last week, we had a man-made disaster in the sense that a tugboat was pulling a barge that got loose in some fashion and slammed into the Galveston Bridge there at Pelican Island that created a catastrophe, not only for the bridge itself, but it created an environmental hazard,  I believe up to over 20,000 gallons of fuel have spilled into the waterways,” said Matt Daley, the director of communications and logistics for the firm.

The firm also responded to the aftermath of tornadoes in Houston.

“On Thursday, then Houston got hit by at least two large tornadoes systems, speed, wind, speed up to 150 miles an hour that just really devastated the downtown Houston area,” added Daley.

Typically, Lexington EDS responds to natural disasters and man-made disasters.

“What we do is we go in and we utilize our mobile housing, our shower systems, our instruments that we produce the infrastructure, the base camp, that those individuals who are responsible for that restoration that they operate from our base,” added Daley.

He says right now, they have six base camps in area warehousing, feeding and taking care of linemen who are responding.

“Our base camps are allowing those utility companies to operate and help speed up that process restoring power,” said Daley.

He also adds that he is proud of the work they do, and the opportunity to represent Kentucky on the national stage.

“We’re just always proud that when we are, as we are in Texas, currently 100%, usually of all the people that are working with us are Kentuckians,” also said Daley.

Adding that typically with long deployments, they try to rotate people to continue fulfilling their mission.