Disaster Relief

You can get a list of active disasters at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) web site.

Here is the web site for the Cache County Chapter of the American Red Cross. The national web site for the Red Cross is found here. If we are to have an effective disaster relief team, we will need to learn how to work side-by-side with the Red Cross.

Several of our members asked if they could provide assistance to CAP Wings during the terrible hurricane season this year. There is no mechanism in place for us to send our members to other wings. Perhaps we should work to change that. Take a look at this web site:
Emergency Management Assistance Compact
All states except California and Hawaii are members of EMAC.

What I've collected here are the materials developed by the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT). CERT was founded to provide training for the community for disaster relief. Their training is very complimentary to Civil Air Patrol's emergency services. Where our organization focuses heavily on search and rescue in varying environments throughout our state, CERT focuses on disaster response within the home city.

Box Elder County has an active CERT team for Brigham City. I know North Logan was planning to conduct CERT training, but I don't believe anything has actually happened in Cache Valley.

CERT's materials are very good and are worth evaluating as Lt. Logan decides which direction to take our own disaster relief training. Take a look at them and let Lt. Logan know what you think. Indeed, it may be most prudent to have our ground team members cross train with CERT. From what I've seen, CAP really does not have a disaster relief training program. NESA focuses on SAR but does very little with DR. We'll see what Lt. Logan decides.

• CERT Brochure
• Starting and Maintaining a CERT Program
  
  Participant Manual
• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements, Foreword, and Introduction
• Unit 1: Disaster Preparedness
• Appendix 1-A: Hazard Lesson Plans
• Unit 2: Fire Safety
• Unit 3: Disaster Medical Operations, Part 1
• Unit 4: Disaster Medical Operations, Part 2
• Unit 5: Light Search and Rescue Operations
• Unit 5 Additional Materials
• Unit 6: CERT Organization
• Appendix 6-A: CERT Forms
• Unit 7: Disaster Psychology
• Unit 8: Terrorism and CERT
• Unit 9: Core Review and Disaster Simulation
  
  Participant Manual Appendix
• Appendix 1-A: Hazard Lesson Plans Introduction
• Earthquakes
• Fires and Wildfires
• Floods
• Excessive Heat
• Hurricanes and Costal Storms
• Landslides and Mudflows
• Severe Thunderstorms
• Tornadoes
• Tsunamis
• Volcanoes
• Winter Storms
• Nuclear Power Plant Emergencies
• Hazardous Materials Incidents

I've also obtained the Instructor's Guide and the visuals for presenting the lessons. Let me know if you'd like these put in this site as well.