Forty-five employees of the Polk County Sheriff’s Office and Polk Fire Rescue left Bartow at 6:45 a.m. in a convoy headed to Perry, the county seat in Taylor County, to assist.
The convoy included mobile command centers, a mobile kitchen, showers, bunks, generators, water tanks, fuel trucks, a swamp buggy, boats, ATVs, patrol cars, and ambulances.
They will provide law enforcement and assist with rescues and recovery, working in 12-hour shifts…