A lot of the place is bone dry. And it has caused the outbreak or facilitated the outbreak of a lot of these fires. And so We declared a State of emergency on [the lack of rain and outbreak of fires in Florida]. that. We've been having our Division of Emergency Management work with Florida, Florida's Division of Forestry Service, which is under the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Simpson. (19:46–19:49)
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Asserts that a State of emergency was declared due to dry conditions and fires in Florida.
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