THOMASVILLE- The Thomas County Emergency Management Agency closed their Emergency Operation Center at 2 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon after responding to more than 150 downed trees.

According to Emergency Management Director Chris Jones, the city and county saw approximately 6,000 power outages during the peak of the storm and roughly 160 downed trees. Luckily, there were no injuries reported.

Jones said around 270 employees were working the event, which was a sufficient number for the amount of calls received during the period of the Emergency Operation Center.

“We were expecting more trees to be down than what we saw, but we had plenty of people here for whatever was called in,” Jones said. “It’s all part of the planning.”

EMA will begin the damage assessment process this afternoon with plans to finish up assessing roads and debris tomorrow.

Additionally, they have sent one fire engine to Valdosta at the request of mutual aid. The engine belonged to the City of Thomasville and has both City and County employees at the ready to help Lowndes County. County Manager Mike Stephenson was proud of the collaborative work that went into this emergency situation.

“I would like to commend all the City and County personnel who worked in the EOC,” he said. “They were on duty at 5:30 this morning and worked tirelessly throughout the event. It was good to witness the high degree of teamwork among all our emergency responders and Emergency Management Director Chris Jones. Our community is blessed to have these fine people working for us.”

With Idalia having left the area and the EOC closing, the 9 p.m. curfew has been lifted.