Who Will Save Your Pet in a Disaster?
Residents of the San Ramon Valley Fire Prevention District in Contra Costa County in California will soon be able to say: a team of dedicated first responders, the San Ramon Valley DART Team (Disaster Animal Response Team).
San Ramon, CA, June 29, 2009 --(PR.com)-- The San Ramon Valley Citizen Corps Council organizes two training sessions in July (7/18 and 7/25) and August (8/8 and 8/9) to train at least 40 graduates of the San Ramon Valley CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) program.
Participants will acquire critical skills that will allow them to assist residents in disasters when they need to evacuate. DART members will set up a temporary animal shelter near an evacuation center. Participants will also be able to join the newly formed Contra Costa County Pet Emergency Preparedness Team, which recognizes the DART training as equivalent to its own training.
“Most people do not realize that in the 4 years since the PETS Act was signed into law by President Bush, virtually no progress has been made to prevent a repeat of the horrible scenes of Hurricane Katrina,” says Frans Hoffman, Coordinator of Lamorinda DART. “First responders are still as unprepared today as they were then to deal with animals in disasters. DART will begin to change all that: we are your community’s designated first responders in a disaster, we are CERT!”
After its launch in February of this year, Lamorinda DART has launched a campaign to spread the DART concept (animal disaster response embedded in CERT) to other CERT groups across the country. “We will support any CERT group that wants to start its own DART,” Frans Hoffman added.
About Lamorinda DART
Lamorinda DART (Disaster Animal Response Team) is pioneering a new and exciting response to issues surrounding animals in disasters. Traditionally, Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) take care of human animals only. After the passage of the PETS Act of 2006 (Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act) little has changed, even though the PETS Act requires that FEMA sponsored or subsidized entities (such as CERT) take domestic pets and their owners into account. In the absence of adequate animal disaster response many animals (and some of their owners) perish, even today.
Lamorinda DART (Disaster Animal Response Team) consists of Lamorinda CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) graduates from Lafayette, Moraga and Orinda, who have received additional animal sheltering and rescue training and are able to provide disaster response to all animals (human and others). As first responders Lamorinda DART members are in a unique position to save both human and animal lives and prevent unnecessary suffering when the next disaster happens.
Visit http://LamorindaDART.org to learn more.
Website: http://LamorindaDART.org
Email: dart@LamorindaDART.org
Phone: 925-878-1323
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Participants will acquire critical skills that will allow them to assist residents in disasters when they need to evacuate. DART members will set up a temporary animal shelter near an evacuation center. Participants will also be able to join the newly formed Contra Costa County Pet Emergency Preparedness Team, which recognizes the DART training as equivalent to its own training.
“Most people do not realize that in the 4 years since the PETS Act was signed into law by President Bush, virtually no progress has been made to prevent a repeat of the horrible scenes of Hurricane Katrina,” says Frans Hoffman, Coordinator of Lamorinda DART. “First responders are still as unprepared today as they were then to deal with animals in disasters. DART will begin to change all that: we are your community’s designated first responders in a disaster, we are CERT!”
After its launch in February of this year, Lamorinda DART has launched a campaign to spread the DART concept (animal disaster response embedded in CERT) to other CERT groups across the country. “We will support any CERT group that wants to start its own DART,” Frans Hoffman added.
About Lamorinda DART
Lamorinda DART (Disaster Animal Response Team) is pioneering a new and exciting response to issues surrounding animals in disasters. Traditionally, Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) take care of human animals only. After the passage of the PETS Act of 2006 (Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act) little has changed, even though the PETS Act requires that FEMA sponsored or subsidized entities (such as CERT) take domestic pets and their owners into account. In the absence of adequate animal disaster response many animals (and some of their owners) perish, even today.
Lamorinda DART (Disaster Animal Response Team) consists of Lamorinda CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) graduates from Lafayette, Moraga and Orinda, who have received additional animal sheltering and rescue training and are able to provide disaster response to all animals (human and others). As first responders Lamorinda DART members are in a unique position to save both human and animal lives and prevent unnecessary suffering when the next disaster happens.
Visit http://LamorindaDART.org to learn more.
Website: http://LamorindaDART.org
Email: dart@LamorindaDART.org
Phone: 925-878-1323
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Frans Hoffman
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http://LamorindaDART.org
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(925) 878-1323
http://LamorindaDART.org
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