$314 million received to install generators <\/a>in police stations, fire stations, libraries, wastewater, water and animal control facilities across the city.<\/p>\nThe city plans to install generators at 65 facilities, with 14 currently completed or underway.<\/p>\n
According to officials<\/p>\n
Mayor John Whitmire said he learned that Houston fire stations did not have generators during the derecho.<\/p>\n
\u201c[First responders] couldn\u2019t get the door open at the fire station,\u201d Whitmire said. \u201cSo that became a huge priority.\u201d<\/p>\n
Turner, who visited when the city first announced the initiative, said the funding is to be used in preparation for the next storm.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis generator is a mark of the success of our cooperation in working together,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re grateful to be able to partner with [the city] to be able to execute on this mission.\u201d<\/p>\n
City officials said the $314 million will also be used for emergency response, vegetation management, debris removal and homeless services. About $100 million of the funding will also go toward home repairs.<\/p>\n
\u201cNatural disasters are inevitable; they happen,\u201d Turner said. \u201cBut we will be prepared to face those storms as they come.\u201d<\/p>\n
One more thing<\/p>\n
Officials also noted that some of the money going toward the generators will be philanthropic. The 14 out of 65 planned facilities can expect to have generators installed by May 2027. However, it is unclear when the remaining 51 generators will be installed, and officials said the number could fluctuate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston has begun installing at least 14 generators at public facilities across the city. Scott Turner, U.S. Secretary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[126774,126775,3766,63357,56,58,57,13667,4476,57344,68549],"class_list":["post-357570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-acres-home","tag-back-up-generators","tag-city-of-houston","tag-generators","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-hud","tag-mayor-john-whitmire","tag-scott-turner","tag-storm-preparation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}