Saturday, November 12, 2011
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Mira Mesa CERT Newsletter
Good afternoon, here is the news:
No Battalion News this week. It's been a bit
slow.
Team Meeting—TOMMORROW NIGHT Thursday 10 November
2011, 6:00pm—7:00pm. At our rally point, the gazebo in Mira Mesa
Community Park between the Recreation Center and Fire Station 38, on New Salem
just East of Mira Mesa Blvd. it will probably be a bit cold (thanks
Captain Obvious) so dress warmly. Bring a chair if standing is not your
thing. Although it has been awhile now, I still want to discuss the
blackout and what you learned. I want to talk about our upcoming meetings
also, the floor will be open, bring yours ideas.
Scripps Ranch Drill 15 November—This is an
interesting drill, where most us will call in from home. We will be
presented a scenario (probably the standard earthquake) and you will be asked
to make something plausible up about what you found in your area, then report
it over the telephone. You might be reporting to me, you might not.
Your information will then be aggregated and reported up the chain of
command. yes, I do understand the telephones may not be working, the point
of the drill is data collection and reporting, go with it. The After
Action Report should make good reading. IF YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE, let
me know as soon as possible, we need a head count from our area.
That's all for this week. Questions, comments, you
know how to find me.
-Steve
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Mira Mesa CERT Newsletter 11/2
Good morning, here is the News:
RED FLAG TODAY—More about this in Battalion News,
please read it.
Team Meeting—Thursday 10 November 2011,
6:00pm—7:00pm. At our rally point, the gazebo in Mira Mesa Community Park
between the Recreation Center and Fire Station 38, on New Salem just East of
Mira Mesa Blvd. We have not been to the rally point for awhile. I
hope a lot of you newer members who have never been there can make it, you need
to know where this is. Although it has been awhile now, I still want to
discuss the blackout and what you learned. Also, please cull out two or
three of the most interesting things you heard from friends/colleagues etc to
share also (one friend told me "we pulled out six flashlights, one of them
worked". That's probably OK if you know where the one is, and can
find batteries for the others). I want to talk about our upcoming
meetings also, seems like we are overdue for a wound-care review, and I have a
few other ideas, the floor will be open, bring yours.
Scripps Ranch Drill 15 November—Our very good friends
over in Scripps Ranch are cooking up a new idea for a drill, based largely on
what we learned in NIMS-704 (good time to haul out your notes or whatever and
look at them). There are varying levels of participation, from calling in
information from where ever you are, to stopping at the Command Post just
long enough to share your observations, to actually participating in the
evaluation. Be aware that they are working out some ideas, so there may
be a few rough spots. This is fresh stuff if you can, please block out a
little time that night to support it. We don't have much detail yet, I
will share as soon as it is available.
That's all for this week. Questions, comments, you
know how to find me.
-Steve
Mira Mesa CERT Newsletter 10/26
Good evening, here is the news:
Training Hours Due—Please have those in to me by 5:00pm
Friday. Even if I actually saw you at the Haunt Drill for example,
you need t tell me about it. Also, If you have completed all five of your
NIMS courses, that's good for two CE's.
Team Meeting—Thursday, 10 November, 6:00pm.
We'll try to end promptly at 7. At our Rally Point, the gazebo just west
of the Recreation Center on New Salem, East of Camino Ruiz (just past Fire
Station 38). Since we did not have a meeting in October, we did not get
to discuss the blackout. Please come prepared to talk about how you
reacted; what you did, what you did not do, what worked, what did not.
It's been said many times that this was a giant drill ready-made. I
agree. Let's make the most of it. The survey results are in for the
Haunt Drill, and the After Action Report has been filed, I will share those
results. Anyone who attended the drill is also welcome to share their
thoughts and experiences. Since I spent all of my time outside trying
desperately to look important, I really don't have the best perspective, so
I'll be looking forward to this part. If we have time we will talk about
2012, I want to focus on where we are, where we want to be, and what we can do
in 2012 to get there. Bring a folding chair if standing for an a hour is
not your gig, and personal illumination, it will be dark.
NIMS Classes—I will probably cover this as usual in
the Battalion News, but I wanted to include a special note here to all of you.
If you did not graduate in the last Academy (you guys get more time) and you
don't have these classes done by 31 December 2011, you will be suspended at
best. No, I'm not kidding. I really believe in the value of these
classes, but I don't want to lose a single member because of some technical
issue or otherwise. So, if you are struggling to get these done, please
let me know what your issues are. I have fair technical expertise, and
may be able to help.
All for this week, questions, comments, ISSUES WITH NIMS
CLASSES, you know how to find me.
-Steve
Mira Mesa CERT Newsletter 10/18
Good morning, here is the News:
Team Meeting— Thursday, 10 November. Daylight
Savings Time ends the week before, so it will be dark. I think we will
meet at our primary rally point. Some of you have never been there.
We will meet at or near the gazebo in Mira Mesa Park, just off of New Salem
Street, east of Mira Mesa Blvd. This is more or less between Fire Station
38 and the Recreation Center. We never had a chance to talk about the
blackout, so let's make that our primary topic. I would like to know how
your plan worked, and what you will do differently next time. Let's face
it, there WILL be a next time. I know many of you made the haunt drill
last week, we can talk about that also. We will start at 6:00pm, end at
7:00. Please bring a folding chair of some sort if you don't want to
stand the whole time, remember to dress for the weather, and of course bring
personal illumination. PPE/Go-Bags not required.
Haunt Drill—Quite a deal this year, we had 44 signed
up, and I think just over 40 signed in and did the drill. Those of you
who participated should be getting a short survey in a few days, please take a
few minutes to fill it out and send it in. I can promise you that your
impressions will matter.
Rally Point—I mentioned this in the Team Meeting
announcement, and I would imagine that some of our newer members are not quite
sure what this is. A Team Rally Point is simply a place on the map in the
geographic area covered by a CERT Team. They are typically out in the
open some place, and not tied to any building which may be unusable following a
disaster. The rally point is a place where you can go following a
disaster to connect with other CERT and begin a coordinated response. If
you have no available communication following a sudden catastrophic disaster,
and don't expect communications to resume, AND you are available for
deployment, you can go to the rally point. What you do from there depends
on who else shows up and what you have available. It's a source of
endless discussion that you are now part of, think about what you might do if
you showed up and discovered that you are in charge.
That's all for this week, Battalion News follows, questions,
comments, you know how to find me.
-Steve
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