Community Crisis Response Teams

Local Ham groups

padraic2112 — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:25:14 +0000

A collection of amateur radio groups in the Southern California area.

More here.

EMI Self-Training

padraic2112 — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:10:17 +0000

FEMA’s EMI site. The independent study program is accessible here.

In particular, these two courses would be a good place to start:

There is also an Introduction to ICS for federal employees, and numerous other courses available, with course materials.

California’s DisasterVolunteers

padraic2112 — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:08:01 +0000

The State of California has made a number of strides towards preemptively engaging the citizenry prior to major disasters. The DisasterVolunteers section of the California Volunteers site is a good jumping off point for Californians looking to become more involved.

In particular, you should look at the California Citizen Corps, the Community Emergency Response Teams program, and the Medical Reserve Corps (more information on all those here).

Emergency Digital Information Services

padraic2112 — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:06:49 +0000

The State of California’s Office of Emergency Services has an information system that allows people to subscribe to alerts, or browse them via the web.

There is also this web service, Nixle, which is used by the LA County Sheriff’s Dept. and others to send out alerts.

Community Response Grids

padraic2112 — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 04:09:10 +0000

The 911.gov project over at the University of Maryland’s Human-Computer Interaction Lab looks intriguing. Ben Shneiderman gave the keynote at last year’s ISCRAM, and also had a conference paper on the community response grid project.

Cisco NERV

padraic2112 — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 03:52:22 +0000