This is excellent, Brenda! Far too many SAR / MSAR aren't known resources
by Emergency Management, and would be vastly under-used if it occurred to anyone
to call SAR / MSAR to assist.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Jorene Downs
Tulare Co, CA
SAR, MSAR, Swiftwater
Rescue, US&R,
Technical Rescue, Cave Rescue,
Hasty Team, ICP
www.CEOates.com/sar Tulare-Kings CERT
Program Coordinator
www.tk-cert.org
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 2:54
AM
Subject: [MSAR] ref home land
security
I'm sure the whole event was "WAY COOL" and participating in it a
privilege.
It made me think of our relationship with our local Emergency Management
Agency, I'd like to share, it might help others become better known or
accepted in their areas. Since our beginning we have been registered or
listed with our county Emergency Management Agency, as a "resource group"
specifically for SAR, however having an ongoing relationship (show interest in
other "things" they do) opens other doors for us. We have been
invited to participate in a variety of drills that are planned to help others
improve, although we are on the peripheral of those trainings we learn "who
else is out there" not to mention what they responsibilities are, in that
general field of response and rescue. We GET TO KNOW THEM, enough cannot
be said for good rapport. We have been invited to participate in "Safety
Fairs" in huge mall parking lots, where police, fire, life squad, hospitals,
water rescue, helicopters, and other emergency response groups gather to offer
the public a glimpse of what is there for them. We take our horses, full
tack, set up a table a couple people man, with brochures about our
team. We get invited to parades,
We were invited to assist a neighboring county after a flash flood
accompanied by the Ohio River Flooding. Their resources were stretched
thin. We rode to homes that vehicles could not get to, to ask how
everyone was and did they need any emergency items, medicine, food, drinking
water, then relayed back to the authorities what if any needs.
Basically we try never to turn down a reasonable request. It gets
us in the loop. Unlike Terry's group who is a part of a police agency
others may have to work a little harder to get recognition or
acceptance. I hope this is useful to some. Brenda Durham
East Fork State Park
Volunteer Mounted Search & Rescue
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