Amazon has activated its Disaster Relief Hub in Atlanta, getting supplies ready and in place across Florida, and organizing teams to help Florida communities impacted by Hurricane Ian.
The National Hurricane Center expects Hurricane Ian to gain strength and become a potentially damaging hurricane that could make landfall in Florida in the coming days.
Amazon teams across the U.S. are ready to support communities impacted by the storm, and the company is prepared to use its infrastructure, technology, and inventory to support those in need.
Below are some of the actions taken to be ready to provide aid as soon as it’s needed:
- Activated Amazon’s Disaster Relief Hub, a special warehouse in Atlanta where the company prepositions over 1 million relief items that we know are the most needed when a disaster strikes.
- Loaded 10 trucks with over 360,000 bottles of water and strategically prepositioned the vehicles in several locations across Florida and other southern U.S. states so we can quickly deliver clean water to impacted communities.
- Reserved a parking lot at one of our facilities in Jacksonville, Florida, to allow the Red Cross to park up to 75 trailers that will help transport relief items as soon as they are needed.
“We know that when natural disasters strike, communities quickly need help—and we are mobilizing our teams and using our technology and infrastructure to be able to assist those in need as soon as possible,” said Abe Diaz, head of Amazon Disaster Relief. “Hurricane Ian is likely to be a powerful hurricane by the time it makes landfall, and we are using our logistics expertise and artificial intelligence technology to preposition the most needed products at the most effective locations.”
Amazon will continue to monitor this storm and rally its teams to assist communities in coordination with relief organizations and local authorities. Since its creation in 2017, Amazon Disaster Relief has donated more than 20 million items in response to 95 disasters and humanitarian crises.
Source: Amazon
