More than 400 PG&E electric workers and support staff, who flew to Georgia on Oct. 4 to be part of the electric utility industry’s mutual-assistance support after Hurricane Helene, are now in Florida to get to work after Hurricane Milton.

The PG&E contingent is in Sebastian, a city that’s two miles from the Atlantic Ocean in Florida’s Indian River County. Milton made landfall late Wednesday, leaving a path of devastation across Florida. Repair and restoration work could begin as early as later today.

On Wednesday, Peter Kenny, PG&E’s Senior Vice President of Electric Operations, sent a recorded message to the families of PG&E coworkers deployed to Florida.

“I want you to know that there is nothing more important to us than the safety of your loved ones, and that’s true whether they are here in California or helping to restore those impacted by hurricanes,” he said.

The PG&E crews in Florida are part of a vast mutual-assistance effort that came to the aid of utilities in Georgia, North and South Carolina and elsewhere are Hurricane Helene and now are ready to do the same after Hurricane Milton. The Edison Electric Institute said more than 36,000 workers from utilities in at least 37 states, the District of Columbia, and Canada are already on the ground in Florida.

Over the weekend, the PG&E workers and the 300 vehicles that traveled to Georgia deployed to more than 60 work locations replacing power poles and powerlines damaged by trees, heavy rains and strong winds.

“Mutual assistance is a hallmark of the electric power industry,” EEI said in its daily hurricane report on Tuesday. “Through this unique and longstanding program, electric companies from across the country and Canada share workers and resources to help their industry peers restore power following hurricanes and other events that cause significant customer outages.”