Hundreds of Surfside emergency workers and their dogs will receive free housing on Royal Caribbean cruise ship
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As search and recovery efforts continue in Surfside, Florida, where a condominium building suddenly collapsed last week, emergency workers will receive free housing, meals and other amenities. Royal Caribbean announced on Friday that its ship, Explorer of the Seas, has arrived at PortMiami to help support approximately 600 emergency workers and their dogs.
The emergency workers will go on board in groups of 80, Royal Caribbean Group said in a press release. There, they will receive individual rooms, hot meals, laundry service and Wi-Fi. Florida Division of Emergency Management Director Kevin Guthrie said in a statement that the resource "will ensure our search and rescue teams have a quiet space to recover their mental and physical well-being as they work 12-hour shifts."Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.