NWPADR News
New Contacts for NWPAERG
Monday, May 7, 2012
Starting this week for all ERG Point of Contact inquiries and information please contact Danella Schroeder at dschroeder@co.crawford.pa.us or 814-724-2538 for all Training and Exercise questions please contact Mark Hicks at mhicks@co.venango.pa.us or 814-677-0325.
Caleb Dixon Announced As EMS Preparedness Specialist
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
On May 2, 2012, EMMCO West announced the appointment of Caleb Dixon as the new EMS Preparedness Specialist. Caleb replaces George Klinzing in this position. The preparedness specialist coordinates preparedness activities in both EMMCO East and EMMCO West regional EMS councils. Look for Caleb attending meetings in the coming weeks and month.
Regional MAC Spring Weather Exercise Planned
Friday, March 16, 2012
On March 28, 2012, the five counties will participate in a regional exercise to activate the Multi-Agency Coordination Center (MACC) in Erie County, Emergency Operations Center’s (EOC’s) in Crawford and Venango Counties utilizing Emergency Support Functions (ESF) Staff participating from their offices throughout the region in Knowledge Center as well as other communication methods available. The emergency functions that will be exercised are: alert and notification, communications, coordination and control, emergency public information, health and medical, public safety, resource management, warning, police, fire, and emergency medical services. Participating agencies will be from throughout the Northwest Emergency Response Group activating those essential ESF functions for Response and Disaster Recovery.
Crawford Co GIS Site Operational
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Crawford County GIS website is up. It’s an interactive address and parcel viewer that is built off of our data. Please take time to watch our demo video and/or explore the help link at the top of the web mapping page. http://www.crawfordcountypa.net/gis
HazMat Training in Erie
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
March 10th, 8-5- High Pressure Tank Truck training instructed by STTS
May 19th, 8-5- Hazmat Technician Refresher- instructed by TEEX (sponsored by NWPAERG)
If any of your people would like to attend, let me know so I may plan for food and refreshments.
Brian A. Mesaros
Asst. Emergency Management Coordinator
Erie County Department of Public Safety
814.451.7924
Public Safety Alerts from Google
Monday, January 30, 2012
If you have heard of Google Alerts yet below is the link to the web page. It does a very good job of listing public safety alerts.
http://www.google.org/publicalerts
The emergency alerts can be observed by going to google.org/publicalerts and checking out the existing situations that the general public should be aware of. Various alerts are now available in the U.S. but also in other regions of the world and they should help travelers properly plan their trips and driving routes to avoid any dangerous situations.
Larry Dombrowski, Chief County Detective
Erie County District Attorney's Office
814..451.6410
Next Equipment Funding Deadline
Thursday, January 19, 2012
The next deadline to submit for Homeland Security Funding for equipment is May 8, 2012 at 4:00 PM.
NWPAERG Equipment Display
Monday, September 12, 2011
2nd. Annual NWPAERG Equipment Display, Saturday, September 24, 2011, Crawford County Fairgrounds, outside Meadville, PA. 9 AM - Noon. Contact Allen Clark, AClark@co.crawford.pa.us if you are bringing equipment/resources to the event. Download Flyer Here: /content/files/ERG Equipment Expo Flyer.pdf
Swift Water Teams Sent to Eastern PA
Friday, September 9, 2011
The Swift Water Teams of Lake City VFD (Erie County) and Glade VFD (Warren County) were requested to assist in water rescues in Eastern Pennsylvania.
Small Business Resource Information Sheet
Monday, July 25, 2011
Dear LEPC/SERC Representative,
The link below is for the most recent "U.S. EPA Small Business Resource Information Sheet". You may want to distribute it to the small businesses in your jurisdiction.
http://www.epa.gov/compliance/resources/publications/incentives/smallbusiness/smallbusresources.pdf