Hurricane Relief - Any Local Officers?
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Maybe some military cops.
I may be going with the Mass task force. The director of the MATF is same person as BEMA's director. And were on the same base.
There is a big need for medical people, CERT trained people, structural engineers and people with Emergency Management expierience. I got all but the strucutual enginneering expierience.
It is really paining me to see all this suffering among my fellow Americans and not doing anything about it. But, I have to wait to be called.
http://www.geocities.com/beverlyema/
There is a big need for medical people, CERT trained people, structural engineers and people with Emergency Management expierience. I got all but the strucutual enginneering expierience.
It is really paining me to see all this suffering among my fellow Americans and not doing anything about it. But, I have to wait to be called.
http://www.geocities.com/beverlyema/
FEMA deploys Beverly aid to hurricane victims
By BobGates/ [email protected]
Thursday, September 1, 2005
A group of 34 rescue workers from the Federal Emergency Management Authority's Beverly-based urban search and rescue team headed to southern Mississippi on Tuesday to help in the cleanup after Hurricane Katrina. A convoy of support vehicles left the FEMA offices at about 6 p.m. on Tuesday to begin the 30 hour drive to Camp Shelby, Miss., the staging area.
Team leader Mark Foster of Beverly said from there rescue workers will be sent to either New Orleans or the Mississippi shore. The envoy, which consisted of about 60,000 pounds of gear in two tractor trailers, three trucks and a bus, were expected to arrive late Wednesday night, he said.
"They're driving around the clock," he said.
More team members are "in the shoot" and will leave soon, he said.
Foster, who serves as the city's director of emergency management, was scheduled to fly there on Wednesday afternoon. The team found out they were going at about noon on Tuesday, a day after the hurricane hit the Gulf Coast of the U.S.
In recent years the team has been sent to the World Trade Center attack in New York City and the deadly Worcester Cold Storage fire scene. Most recently, in helped at the scene of a crane collapse at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy.
"The last major deployment was Sept. 11," Foster said.
By BobGates/ [email protected]
Thursday, September 1, 2005
A group of 34 rescue workers from the Federal Emergency Management Authority's Beverly-based urban search and rescue team headed to southern Mississippi on Tuesday to help in the cleanup after Hurricane Katrina. A convoy of support vehicles left the FEMA offices at about 6 p.m. on Tuesday to begin the 30 hour drive to Camp Shelby, Miss., the staging area.
Team leader Mark Foster of Beverly said from there rescue workers will be sent to either New Orleans or the Mississippi shore. The envoy, which consisted of about 60,000 pounds of gear in two tractor trailers, three trucks and a bus, were expected to arrive late Wednesday night, he said.
"They're driving around the clock," he said.
More team members are "in the shoot" and will leave soon, he said.
Foster, who serves as the city's director of emergency management, was scheduled to fly there on Wednesday afternoon. The team found out they were going at about noon on Tuesday, a day after the hurricane hit the Gulf Coast of the U.S.
In recent years the team has been sent to the World Trade Center attack in New York City and the deadly Worcester Cold Storage fire scene. Most recently, in helped at the scene of a crane collapse at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy.
"The last major deployment was Sept. 11," Foster said.
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Otis Air National Guard Base may be sending some Security Police personnel in a few days.
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There is an article on officer.com which includes a letter from the F.O.P. asking police agencies to send volunteers. The requirements included having all your own equipment including a police vehicle and being self-sufficient in terms of getting your own food and water (they would provide shelter).
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Word came down from AFMC to put the 66th Security Police from Hanscom AFB on standby for a possible 45 day TDY in support of the Hurricane relief. If we are told to deploy it's most likely going to be short notice.
I hope we get the go ahead.
I hope we get the go ahead.
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The VA Police (Dept of Veteran Affairs) are sending officers from divisions from across the US.
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·The following is a message from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security:
This message concerns the number of responses to Hurricane Katrina. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) understands the desire for all public safety and first responders to help. However, DHS strongly discourages "self-dispatching" of assets, as this practice endangers responders and threatens overall operational control.
In order to ensure a coordinated national response to Hurricane Katrina, DHS is asking that the nation's law enforcement, fire and emergency response communities help us by working through their State Emergency Management Director or state-designated contact for the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC). If you wish to help and have not already made such contact, please register your response assets and resources with your state's official interstate mutual aid program.
Through EMAC, a disaster-impacted state can request and receive assistance from other member states quickly and efficiently, resolving issues of liability and reimbursement. This is paramount to ensure that our first responders are insulated from unforeseen accidents, injuries and legal actions.
For more information about EMAC please visit it's website at:
www.emacweb.org http://www.emacweb.org/
This message concerns the number of responses to Hurricane Katrina. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) understands the desire for all public safety and first responders to help. However, DHS strongly discourages "self-dispatching" of assets, as this practice endangers responders and threatens overall operational control.
In order to ensure a coordinated national response to Hurricane Katrina, DHS is asking that the nation's law enforcement, fire and emergency response communities help us by working through their State Emergency Management Director or state-designated contact for the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC). If you wish to help and have not already made such contact, please register your response assets and resources with your state's official interstate mutual aid program.
Through EMAC, a disaster-impacted state can request and receive assistance from other member states quickly and efficiently, resolving issues of liability and reimbursement. This is paramount to ensure that our first responders are insulated from unforeseen accidents, injuries and legal actions.
For more information about EMAC please visit it's website at:
www.emacweb.org http://www.emacweb.org/
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