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www.blog.bsccert.org www.belmontcert.org Belmont CERT - Meeting Minutes Date: January 21, 2014 Location: Belmont Fire Station 14 Presentation: Wildfire Refresher Briefing Presenters: Capt. Pat Halleran • Capt Halleran introduced the newest Belmont CERT member, Josh Katz. • Capt Halleran discussed out two major events of the year, Silver Dragon and Disaster Preparedness Fair. o Silver Dragon will be on April 17 th and Belmont will be participating with Foster City and San Mateo. http://sanmateocountynews.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/county-simulates- mass-medicine-distribution-in-emergency-preparedness-exercise/ o The Disaster Preparedness Fair will be on the first day of the San Mateo County Fair (June 7 th ) and will probably last four hours, similar to last year http://www.cityofsanmateo.org/Calendar.aspx?EID=5081 . There are lessons learned from last year (no skills exercise indoors, signage, etc) that will be applied. There is also a possibility of a CERT booth running the duration of the fair with staffing from multiple city CERT teams. • A 50 th anniversary tsunami drill will be held in Half Moon Bay on March 27 th . http://nthmp.tsunami.gov/tpw/tsunami-preparedness-week.html • Guest speakers have been lined up for the next two meetings. February will be a speaker from Department of Animal Control http://smchealth.org/animalcontrol ; March will be someone from the SM County Coroner’s Office. http://www.co.sanmateo.ca.us/portal/site/coroner • Capt Halleran asked if anyone on the team happened to be a pilot. The County is exploring the idea of establishing a Disaster Airlift Response Team that would utilize small aircraft to ferry in supplies to the smaller communities that could be cutoff during a disaster. http://www.southcountypilots.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=115&Itemid=9 • Indications are that there will be an SFO Airport Disaster exercise this year. Based on volunteer experiences from the last exercise (2102), this is an excellent opportunity to be a part of. http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?id=8826390 • No word yet on any call for volunteers to support the Urban Shield exercise (9/5-9/8). https://www.urbanshield.org/ • A Red Cross disaster trailer is now stationed at Belmont City Hall. This is one of three distributed throughout the county. Red Cross is doing this elsewhere (articles below) o http://www.redcross.org/news/article/ny/new-york/Red-Cross-Partners-and-Prepares-for-the-Next-Disaster o http://www.redcross.org/news/press-release/Local-American-Red-Cross-Places-Shelter-Trailer-in-Windber
