Mounted search and rescue

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

Thank you for the information.  Mary Lou Johnson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jorene Downs" <Jorene@CEOates.com>
To: "Mounted search and rescue" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 12:10 AM
Subject: Re: [MSAR] Spontaneous volunteers / Performance Evaluation/ 
mutualaid/ NRP


> 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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