Mounted search and rescue

["Mary Lou Johnson" <nox2663@blackfoot.net>]

Thank you for the advice.
Mary Lou Johnson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "irvin lichtenstein" <ilichten1@verizon.net>
To: "Mounted search and rescue" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 10:39 PM
Subject: Re: [MSAR] Spontaneous volunteers / Performance Evaluation/ mutual 
aid/ NRP


> 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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