Mira Mesa Team Newsletter

Good morning, here is the News:

Team Meeting—10 April, 6:00pm in the Senior Center. We'll do an ICS exercise. I think we will construct a fairly simple paper scenario with timeline that we will just read together, then we'll haul out some of those forms we keep talking about and apply them to the situation. I want to put some emphasis on practicing how we develop information under NIMs guidelines. Our handoff to incoming professional responders might be the most important thing we do in a catastrophe, and the closer we can get to what they expect, the better.


Hours for March—please have your hours in to me by the end of this week.


Scripps Ranch Team Meeting tonight—At the Scripps Ranch Library, 7:00pm. One of their members is a nurse who regularly teaches triage to other professionals. She will be doing a presentation, I understand that there will be an emphasis on infant triage, something we don't get much. Because we did not have a formal Team Meeting this month, this will count as a Team Meeting for March if you attend. Please let me know soonest if you want to go, I will RSVP for you.


Academy 27 Graduation—I don't have the final numbers in, but it would appear that we have 10 new members. No, I'm not kidding, it's somewhere around that number. It also appears that the majority signed up at the Street Fair. Those of you who helped out last September will remember that we did a few attention-getting rescue drills, and signed up about 45 interested people, out of which we got 10, a pretty darn good percentage for this sort of thing. This stuff works folks. I'll introduce the new people next week when I get the details.


That's all for this week, stay safe.


-Steve