IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — As Hurricane Hone passes Hawaii, Verizon stays dedicated to retaining communities and first responders related. Verizon’s Response Group has ready year-round to reply to excessive climate conditions, like hurricanes, by participating in emergency drills, fortifying the community infrastructure, and making certain sources are mobilized for speedy response.
Our focus is on making certain that when challenges come up, our community stands sturdy to assist first responders and maintain individuals related with their family members and the important info they should keep protected, mentioned Steven Keller, Pacific Market President for Verizon.
Verizon’s Networks Are Primed
Verizon’s networks are primed to take care of connectivity even within the face of maximum climate circumstances, resembling hurricanes. With redundancy constructed into important paths and parts, Verizon’s community is engineered to resist extreme climate. Verizon engineers have ready by conducting thorough checks, making certain backup programs like batteries and turbines are operational and refueled.
In readiness for community restoration operations, Verizon has bolstered its arsenal with deployable belongings together with:
- A fleet of over 550 transportable community belongings, together with generator-powered cell websites, drones, and a fixed-wing plane for aerial assist.
- An industry-leading 300 satellite-based transportable community belongings, offering essential connectivity in eventualities the place fiber connections are compromised.
- Greater than 1,000 cell turbines to help communities in sustaining or restoring connectivity, and speedy restoration efforts.
Verizon Frontline (NYSE:) stands on the prepared, ready to help first responders in any capability wanted
The Verizon Frontline Disaster Response Group stands prepared to assist guarantee public security companies on the entrance traces of any potential catastrophe response operations have the mission-critical communications capabilities they might want to obtain their missions. This staff, composed primarily of former first responders and navy personnel, is solely devoted to supporting public security clients throughout emergencies for gratis to the supported companies. Verizon Frontline Disaster Response Group members present transportable cell websites, WiFi hotspots, drones, charging stations and different Verizon Frontline gadgets and options that may assist allow mission-critical communication and/or increase community efficiency.
In 2023, this staff supported public security companies and the communities they served throughout three main hurricanes: Hilary, Idalia and Lee. Hurricane Idalia alone noticed practically 100 Verizon Frontline options delivered to public security companies in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina as they handled the aftermath of the storm. Within the first seven months of 2024, the Verizon Frontline Disaster Response Group has responded to almost 800 such requests from greater than 400 totally different companies in 44 states.
Verizon is Dedicated to its Workers
As a part of its dedication to its staff, Verizon helps its workforce via initiatives just like the VtoV Worker Reduction Fund. First created in 2013, the fund supplies assist for Verizon staff affected by pure disasters or emergencies.
Extra info
Go to our Emergency Useful resource Heart at https://www.verizon.com/about/information/emergency-resource-center for additional particulars on Verizon’s emergency response capabilities.
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: NYSE:) powers and empowers how its hundreds of thousands of consumers reside, work and play, delivering on their demand for mobility, dependable community connectivity and safety. Headquartered in New York Metropolis, serving international locations worldwide and practically the entire Fortune 500, Verizon generated revenues of $134.0 billion in 2023. Verizon’s world-class staff by no means stops innovating to fulfill clients the place they’re immediately and equip them for the wants of tomorrow. For extra, go to verizon.com or discover a retail location at verizon.com/shops.
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