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You are here: Home / Articles / Coastside Disaster Preparedness / Large Animal Evac Group Drill ~ Have an Emergency Plan for your Horse

Large Animal Evac Group Drill ~ Have an Emergency Plan for your Horse

September 1, 2016 by Michelle

ariDo you have an emergency evacuation plan for your live stock?

Nick Gottuso, our OES Coastside Emergency Coordinator, reports on the LAEG’s latest drill.

Contact the LAEG if you need help creating an evac plan for your loved ones.

Read this Report: LAEG Post-Exercise Review 8-20-16 (1)

Here is detailed information on the LAEG:

LAEG Member Requirements

LAEG meets every SECOND WEDNESDAY of the month at 6:30pm, at Station 40 Firehouse in HMB. We usually skip July and December months (for vacations and holidays)

Below is a quick rundown of our membership requirements, training opportunities and steps to join the group.

There is no need to have your own trailer (although that is a big plus).  We provide training workshops, and run drills, at least twice per year.

Jeans and proper boots are a must when working with the larger 4-legged types!

  • FEMA ICS (Incident Command System) certified – ICS 700 and ICS 100 required before joining
  • HAM Radio Certified – not required before joining, but mandatory after
  • CPR / First Aid certified – not required before joining, but mandatory after
  • Experienced equine / large animal handlers – not required before joining, but mandatory training provided regularly
  • Member of the SMCAlert System – not required before joining, but mandatory after
  • MUST attend one general meeting per quarter (4 per year)
  • MUST attend all training exercises and drills (we shoot for 3 per year)

Ongoing member training/workshops include (attendance at training exercises is mandatory):

  • Trailer maneuvering and loading
  • Trailer safety and maintenance
  • Large animal handling
  • CPR / First Aid training
  • Ham radio operation
  • Regularly scheduled activation drills and Table Top SOP training


Joining the group is a two phase process.

First, you must take the online FEMA courses:

IS-700.A: National Incident Management System (NIMS) An Introduction
http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/courseOverview.aspx?code=IS-700.a

IS-100.a Introduction to Incident Command System, I-100
http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/courseOverview.aspx?code=IS-100.b
 

The intro pages give you a quick overview of each course, what to expect and how long each course should take.  To start taking each course, you’ll want to go to the top right corner of the intro page in the “TAKE THIS COURSE” block, and click on “Interactive Web-based Course”.  At the end of each course, you take a test.  Once you pass, you’re issued a FEMA online certificate of completion (for each course), which you should save and keep on file.

As we are a county resource, the county dictates that ALL of our members must be ICS certified before they can be allowed to participate in any incident  –  hence the need to take these courses, before being able to join the group.

Second, once you have taken the courses, passed, and been issued certificates, you must fill out the attached member form as completely as you can (please fill out both sides/pages of form).  The form helps me know what your skill set includes, what your capabilities are, what type of equipment you have (truck/trailer) and what level of participation you prefer.

When both steps are complete, you can scan copies of your FEMA certificates and the Member Form back to me, or mail hard copies, whichever is easiest for you.

Once I have all your paperwork, I will add you to our contact list, and you’ll begin receiving all the meeting information and emails that I send out regularly. I’ll also provide further info on joining the SMCAlert system, aa well as HAM and CERT classes as they come up!

SMC LAEG Member Form 2016

Contact: Sharon Montoya Bretz <sharonmontoyabretz@gmail.com>

or go to www.smclaeg.org

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We are an emergency preparedness volunteer organization focused on creating a ready and resilient community along the San Francisco Bay Area coast from the southern side of the Tom Lantos Tunnel (Devil’s Slide) to Tunitas Creek Road.

Emergency Prep Resources

The average Coastsider may not be aware of the many emergency preparation resources available to us! Here’s a list of many of those resources.

KHMB LOGO AM-FMKHMB AM 1710 and FM 100.9

KHMB Radio AM 1710 and FM 100.9 is our local Emergency Radio Station. You would still want to tune in to KCBS for Bay Area wide emergency news.  Make sure you have a radio!
Go to: KHMB or KHMBRadio.com to tune in.

CEC logo-jCEC – Coastside Emergency Corp

From Waddell Creek to Devil’s Slide and up to Skyline are 4 Branches of emergency prepared coastside citizens that are forming. They include many emergency disciplines.
Go to: CEC Portal

CERTCERT Teams – Community Emergency Response Team

Trainings are offered a couple of times per year up and down the coast CERT volunteers are forming Neighborhood Watches to help their neighbors get prepared.
Go to: FEMA page on CERT

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CEAP

Charise McHugh of the Half Moon bay Chamber of Commerce has worked for several years to organize businesses on the coastside in an emergency via the Coastside Emergency Action Plan). If you are a business and have not already participated, please contact the Chamber. In an emergency we need to know where our resources are and how to deploy materiel, and how to get refunded by FEMA.
Go to: HMB Chamber Page on CEAP

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SMC Alert

It is a free alert system that will come to your cell phone, your tablet or computer, or all three. There is no charge, although your carrier may charge for texts. This is the best way to stay on top of traffic accidents.
Go to: SMCAlert.info to sign up

mrcMRC – Medical Reserve Corps

Doctors and nurses work together to become the backbone of an emergency medical situation. Coastside Emergency Experts will tell you that the Coastside will be on its own in a major earthquake disaster for 5-7 days. And we no longer have a Medical Reserve Corps on the Coastside! Contact mdragony@coastsidebuzz.com if you are interested in creating a new chapter.

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ARES—Amateur Radio Emergency Service—of Half Moon Bay
Go to: their website

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We have several Red Cross trailers on the Coast. Take a Red Cross class so you can help in one the shelters during a disaster.
Go to: Sign up for a class or Contact Local Red Cross volunteer Jim Holley

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Have you signed up with Next Door? Next Door is a great social media tool that will help you stay up to date with what is going on in your neighborhood and other neighborhoods on the Coast.
Go to: NextDoor.com to sign up.


michelleMichelle Dragony, founder of CoastsideBUZZ.com, is also a civilian CERT trainer working with Dave Cosgrave, Cal Fire Battalion Chief of Half Moon Bay, and Ari Delay, Cal Fire Battalion Chief of La Honda. Email here at mdragony@coastsidebuzz.com if you have any questions.

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