Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday that the state has moved a 10,000-person base camp at the Tampa Bay Rays stadium to aid in post-storm recovery efforts after it became clear that Hurricane Milton would pose a threat to the facility. in Saint Petersburg.

Ultimately, the Category 3 storm wiped out large portions of the Tropicana field’s roof, with videos and photos showing the torn pieces flapping in the wind.

“When it became clear that there was going to be something of that magnitude within the range, they sent them again from Tropicana,” DeSantis said at a news conference in Tallahassee. “There was no government property in the Tropicana field, I think Duke removed all their property as well.”

The roof was made of “two acres of translucent, Teflon-coated fiberglass and supports itself with 200 miles of cables connected by struts,” according to the Tampa Bay Rays media guide, and was “built to withstand winds of up to 115 mph.” ”

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Now, DeSantis said, “the roof is actually a kind of fabric.” He said the state “understood” that the stadium’s roof was not built to withstand winds of more than 110 miles per hour, so state officials “acted accordingly” and moved the staging area away from there.

The state’s staging area was moved to Jacksonville around midnight Tuesday, DeSantis press secretary Jeremy Redfern told the Herald/Times. Hurricane Milton made landfall Wednesday at 8:30 p.m.

DeSantis said the state has used the stadium as a “routine staging area” during storms, including Hurricane Helene last month.

The staging area at Tropicana Field was set up for 10,000 people to assist with debris removal and first responder operations after the storm.

Early in the week, video footage showed dozens of rows of empty green camp beds. The location was part of what the governor described as the “largest storm mobilization in the history of the state of Florida” ahead of Hurricane Milton.

DeSantis said the damage to the stadium won’t have “any major impact” on the state’s storm response.

“They are in the fight and will continue to be,” he said.