Four South Florida locations where consumer service professionals will be assisting victims of Hurricane Katrina have been announced by Tom Gallagher, Florida’s CFO.
Department of Financial Service specialists will be at: Publix Shopping Center, 12850 Biscayne Blvd. N. Miami; and Home Depot, 13501 S. Dixie Hwy., Kendall.
Specialists will also be at Miami-Dade disaster assistance sites located at: Caleb Center, 5400 NW 22nd Ave, Miami; and South Dade Government Center, 10710 SW 211 St, Miami.
Insurance specialists will be available to help Floridians from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
DFS hurricane insurance assistance in Broward County will be available at 499 NW 70th Ave., Room 301B, Plantation or by calling (954) 797-8325.
In Pensacola, the DFS Consumer Services office is located on 610 E. Burgess Road, phone (850) 453-7800.
Gallagher said his director of the Division of the State Fire Marshal was deployed to Mississippi to help oversee search and rescue efforts. Law enforcement detectives will join six teams from Florida to aid in law enforcement and search and rescue efforts. These efforts presently are concentrated in six lower Mississippi counties and along the Gulf Coast. Ambulances and fire engines will also be provided to impacted areas.
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