NEW YORK CERT
ADVISORY COUNCIL AND FOUNDATION
OPERATION IMPACT USA INC.
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11204\
1-347-408-5345
July
21, 2005
CASTLETON CERT
PORT RICHMOND CERT
GATEWAY CATHEDRAL CERT
BROOKLYN SOUTH CERT
SOUTH BEACH CIVIC CERT (De-Certified 7/15/05)
BATTERY PARK CITY CERT
NEW YORK FEMA 1 CERT (New)
KINGSBRIDGE CERT (New)
WHO NUMBER ONE IS……YOU !!!!!
This year we created four more FEMA based CERT Units in New York State. Let’s all welcome Gateway Cathedral CERT; Port Richmond CERT; Castle CERT all in Staten Island and Brooklyn South CERT in Brooklyn. This brings the CERT Units that I created since 2003 and trained to SIX.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Last year in September, 2004, during Hurricane season (June through November) Battery Park City CERT & South Beach Civic CERT were activated by FEMA to assist on Florida. Some members who took advantage of this activation were flown into Georgia, sworn in as Federal employees for two weeks, paid, trained, given FEMA identification cards and a credit card and then flown to Florida to work as FEMA Community Relation Officers.
Already this year 2005 we have seen:
· Arlene
· Dennis
· Emily
For all those
members that are readily available, we must all be prepared to leave at a
minute’s notice in the event of any disasters requiring our immediate
assistance by FEMA. Please note that there will be certain requirements in
relation to health and physical agility of any team member requesting to assist
in any of these disasters. Also at any given time of activation, “ Not more
than 25% of any team will be included or authorized by me to go on the FEMA
activation list, leaving 75% of the group at home in the event of any local
community emergency.”
ADVISORY C OUNCIL
As noted by
the letterhead, my corporation Operation IMPACT USA Inc. has created a
subsidiary, New York CERT Advisory Council and Foundation. The purpose of this
organization is to ensure that each of “ FEMA CERT Units that I created”
maintains the integrity, objectives and mission of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency’s Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) concept.
Once a month
all five Team Chiefs and my staff will meet to discuss the functions, missions,
and accomplishments of each team and ways to improve:
· Funding
· Advanced Training
· Logistics
· Events
· Drills
· Sharing new ideas and missions
· Creating the Massive Telephone Tree Between All teams
· Creating Disaster Scenarios where “all teams” participate and function
as “one” in the accomplishment of a successful mission.
· Preparation for potential BLACKOUTS or BROWNOUTS and strategies in
assisting the elderly/disabled and local police and fire units.
· Assisting the New York City Office of Emergency Management in all
community related functions and including the “All Together Now” project that
they are now in partnership with.
· We already are in the process of completing our database for all teams.
In the event of a major disaster and team members are unable to get home then
they can report to the nearest CERT Unit for activation to assist in that area.
SPECIAL
NOTE
To all Team
Chiefs and ICS Chiefs of My FEMA Units.
One of our team members
forwarded what appears to be one of the
best ideas that I've seen to date
Hats Off To: Jimmy of
Castleton CERT CBCRASH@aol.Com
It goes like this:
In case of emergency - ICE
Paramedics
will turn to a victim's cell phone for clues to that
person's identity. You can make their job much easier with a
simple idea that they are trying to get everyone to adopt: ICE.
ICE
stands for
In Case of Emergency. If you add an entry in the
contacts list in your cell phone under ICE, with the name and phone
number of the person that the emergency services should call on
your behalf, you can save them a lot of time and have your loved
ones contacted quickly. It
only takes a few moments of your time to do.
Paramedics
know what ICE means and they look for it immediately.
ICE your cell phone NOW!
Jimmy this
is an excellent find. If any other of our teams find similar pieces of
information then please forward to me.
SPECIAL CHILDREN ADVISORY
Another site appears
to be one of the best in relation to our children’s welfare and protection. For
all family members, grandparents and friends, this site is noted as
It lists by zip codes
all sex offenders in a given area.
Amazingly, several
live in my immediate area that we were
not aware of until
now.
Peter A. Morici
Master FEMA Instructor
Be
who you are and say what you feel
Because
Those
who matter won't mind and
Those
who mind don't matter.