And while the bureaucracy is busy crossing every "T" and dotting every "I" - for the men on the ground - they just keep doing.
Yesterday was a good example of this for the Coast Guard, which had multiple simultaneous missions to carry out, including the rescue of one of their patrol teams, which we told you about earlier in the news.
Here's what the acting Commandant had to say about how their Thursday went:
Commander Gregory Soberanis - Acting Commandant, Belize Coast Guard
"Several things were going on yesterday. You know we have the humanitarian assistance disaster relief operations going on. Currently, our main effort is in Crooked Tree Village, but we're also providing assistance to NEMO in some of the rural areas, and in some of the immediate areas surrounding Belize City, 8 Miles for example, in the Belama area, and we've been working very closely with the Belize City Council as well with the office of the Mayor. So, we've been engaged in numerous operations. Yesterday, after concluding that rescue operation, we still had to move to Turneffe to continue that initial mission, and we also are in the process of trying to locate a missing individual down south, an American national, who is currently still missing. We have 2 patrols that are out conducting that search operation. We also had a situation up north as well, where there was a distress call, from a Mexican vessel, that we had a deploy to from Station San Pedro, so, we were fully engaged yesterday."
