SURVIVING THE FLOOD OF 2009!!! Damn I am soooo glad the water is going down!!
Over the last month and a half my Province has been hit with another spring flood. Mind you it's not as bad as the Flood of The Century in 1997 which took out most of the southern part of the Province and Eastern North Dakota and North Western Minnesota but it is still damn bad. The main highway running to the US Border from Winnipeg is still closed which is kind of making my job a bit harder as I have the locals dipping into my patrol area, and the lazy LEO's at Morris Detachment have been sitting on their "fat asses" and that goes for Emerson Detachment too. Boo Hoo we're all surrounded by water and sand bags. You COULD HAVE JOINED MY URT!!! I would have taught you to swim and how to put on a drysuit. Kidding aside I love those Bros too, and know they'll have a shit pile of work when the waters go down. But getting back to the training part of the blog aspect of this post I have posted and mailed copies of this to the Detachments who have been affected by the flooding. Of course nobody would realize when the town's are dry how helpful this may be:
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One of the toughest jobs during a disaster is prioritizing the enormous list of tasks to be done. One of those tasks just got a little bit easier...
During any disaster, your offices are flooded ( Literally!!) with calls from family members seeking information on missing loved ones. Anyone with a family knows that this can be a very scary time indeed. The problem is that a police departments' phone lines can be tied up answering these calls for which they may have little or no information. This becomes more problematic when real emergencies are missed due to clogged phone lines.
The Red Cross has recently updated their Safe and Well List http://disastersafe.redcross.org wherein those displaced can register and family members can check on their well-being. If you point citizens in this direction it should reduce overall call volume.
During relief efforts make sure your officers are aware of www.craigslist.com and www.freecycle.org these sites have special areas for temp housing, furniture, clothing and even jobs.
When your officers are armed with this information it will save you time and resources during those critical hours when disaster strikes.
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One of the toughest jobs during a disaster is prioritizing the enormous list of tasks to be done. One of those tasks just got a little bit easier...
During any disaster, your offices are flooded ( Literally!!) with calls from family members seeking information on missing loved ones. Anyone with a family knows that this can be a very scary time indeed. The problem is that a police departments' phone lines can be tied up answering these calls for which they may have little or no information. This becomes more problematic when real emergencies are missed due to clogged phone lines.
The Red Cross has recently updated their Safe and Well List http://disastersafe.redcross.org wherein those displaced can register and family members can check on their well-being. If you point citizens in this direction it should reduce overall call volume.
During relief efforts make sure your officers are aware of www.craigslist.com and www.freecycle.org these sites have special areas for temp housing, furniture, clothing and even jobs.
When your officers are armed with this information it will save you time and resources during those critical hours when disaster strikes.
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