Mounted search and rescue

["Jorene Downs" <Jorene@CEOates.com>]

Homeland Security funding has a glitch attached, requiring a Citizen Corps 
Council and other compliance. Someone in your county is supposed to be 
addressing Spontaneous Volunteer management during a disaster, and that is 
designated as the task of Citizen Corps. If not being performed by Citizen 
Corps, find out who has that role. It should be written in the county's 
emergency operations plan.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Jorene Downs
Tulare Co SAR - Hasty Team ICP Team
www.ceoates.com/sar
Tulare-Kings CERT
www.tk-cert.org

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "irvin lichtenstein" <ilichten1@verizon.net>
> What is supposed to be and what is are two very different worlds. Out 
> county
> EMA is the Dept. of Public Safety which includes the EMA, the 9-1-1 
> center,
> the EOC, the fire academy, the police academy, EMS academy and region,
> HazMat/LERC but not the responders, public education functions, planning,
> and handing out anti-terror toys. It does not credential anyone and 
> refuses
> to be the organizational home for SAR, CART, LART, or any other function
> where a group of citizens will form a volunteer organization that pays for
> itself (especially insurance).  In the big city next door, the EMA is 
> within
> the career fire department, and across the river the state police are the
> EMA everywhere.
>
> This is not a one size fits all world, and definitely not in the emergency
> response arena.
>
> Irv Lichtenstein


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