Perry-Foley Airport to be designated a staging site for future natural disasters?

Posted on October 23, 2019

Although the utility trucks staged at Perry-Foley Airport for Hurricane Dorian have become a distant memory, the sight of hundreds, if not thousands, of vehicles and personnel at the airport could become a more common occurrence in the future with the county in talks to designate the airport as a strategic staging site.

At its Sept. 3 meeting, the commission heard from Tim Bolton of Lodging Solutions out of Houston, Texas, a logistic company that has contracts with Duke Energy and Florida Power & Light to provide housing and accommodations for linemen responding to natural disasters.

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