Good morning, here is the News:
Hours Due—Hours for March are due by end of the day
this Thursday 28 March. If any of you marched in the St. Patrick's Day
parade, please report it for volunteer hours. Send your hours to Jennifer
at zhinan@gmail.com. If you made it
into the COMM CE scheduled for this Saturday, you can report your hours on
Sunday, the rest of you please stick to the Thursday deadline, really helps us
out.
Team Meeting—Wednesday, 10 April, 6:00pm—7:00pm in
the Mira Mesa Senior Center. We have a change of plan, it turns out that
the current Academy class is also doing fire suppression that week. We'd
be pressed to get the practice extinguishers back to them in time. So we
are swapping modules, we'll work on ICS this next meeting, and push fire
suppression/safety off until June. Jen and I will work out a program, I
think we might put an emphasis on Logistics, as there always seems to be some
confusion about what this activity does. Logistics is something CERT may
be involved in when we have a large scale emergency. It tends to be easy
to conceptualize, difficult to implement. I usually think of it like
this:
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What needs to get there, and where is
"there"?
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In what order does it need to get there?
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When does it need to get there?
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How will we get it there?
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How do we keep track of it?
There you go. Simple. Ok, maybe not, we'll try
to put together some sort of tabletop exercise to help us get our brains around
this. This subject is anything but dull, in a real emergency the success
of the operation depends on successful logistics, and strong leaders put their
best creative minds on it.
All for this week, stay safe.
-Steve
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