The 1st Quarter 2012 Community Emergency Response
Coordination Workshop has been scheduled. Please join us at the workshop on
Saturday, March 3, 2012. Continental breakfast
will be offered at 8:00 am. Welcome and opening address will begin at 8:30.
This workshop will include a presentation from John Ellsworth, Hidden Village
CERT, about CERT involvement in the response to the canal break/landslide
in/near the Hidden Village area of Logan July 11-15, 2009. A biography on Mr.
Ellsworth is included at the end on this announcement.
John Flynt, Community Preparedness Coordinator for the
Salt Lake City Office of Emergency Management will brief workshop attendees on
Salt Lake City government’s participation in the ShakeOut and the ways in which
individuals, families, and organizations/groups can
participate.
Additionally, the Greater Salt Lake Area Chapter of the
American Red Cross will provide a short presentation about their involvement
with The Great Utah Shake Out on April 17 – 19. You can support the Mass
Care portion of this exercise by helping the Red Cross test its ability to
provide shelter and food for large numbers of people. Visit www.utahredcross.org for more
details.
This workshop is for anyone interested in community emergency response coordination and communications capabilities in Salt Lake City.
The Salt Lake City Office of Emergency Management is pleased to report that CERT, Mobile Watch, and other religious and non-governmental organizations, as well as the business community throughout the City are continuing to become more coordinated and prepared.
We ask the community councils for assistance in finding
representatives in every neighborhood to participate in these efforts. We also
encourage everyone involved with other community groups interested in emergency
preparedness (such as churches) to attend as it is vital that we coordinate with
existing plans and efforts.
Below is the agenda. Didn’t attend the previous workshops? No problem. Please join us at this one! Pass this on to anyone you feel would have an interest in emergency response.
Below is the agenda. Didn’t attend the previous workshops? No problem. Please join us at this one! Pass this on to anyone you feel would have an interest in emergency response.
Please RSVP as soon as possible by
replying to John.Flynt@slcgov.com and type “workshop, March 3rd, will attend breakfast” or “workshop, March 3rd, meeting only” in
the subject line.
Community
Emergency Response
Coordination
Workshop
Agenda
Saturday, March 3, 2012, 8:00 am – 11:30
am
Pioneer Police Precinct
1040 West 700 South
8:00 Sign-in & Light continental
breakfast
8:30 Welcome & Open Meeting – John
Flynt/Michael Stott
Welcome from SLC Mayor’s
office. 2012 Great Utah ShakeOut & Pre- ShakeOut Exercise
preparations.
8:40 John Ellsworth – Breakout
Groups
CERT involvement in the response
to the canal break/landslide in/near the Hidden Village area of Logan July
11-15, 2009
9:40 Q & A
9:50 Break
10:00 Great Utah
ShakeOut
Briefing on the role of
Salt Lake City government participation and information on how individuals,
families, and groups/organizations can participate
10:10 American Red Cross – Greater
Salt Lake Area Chapter
American Red Cross
activities planned for the Great Utah ShakeOut and recruitment of volunteers for
ShakeOut participation
10:30 Break
10:35 Division
Breakout
Divisions will break out into groups
to have discussion on Division specific coordination, planning, and
activities
People with disabilities may make requests for reasonable
accommodation no later than 48 hours in advance in order to attend this
meeting. Accommodations may include alternate formats, interpreters, and other
auxiliary aids. This is an accessible facility. For questions or additional
information, please contact Michael Stott, ADA Coordinator, at michael.stott@slcgov.com, (801)
535-7976, or TDD (801) 535-6021.
Contact
Information
John Flynt
Community Preparedness
Coordinator
Salt Lake City Emergency
Management
801-799-3604
Michael
Stott
Community Affairs Analyst &
ADA Coordinator
Salt Lake City Mayors
Office
801-535-7976
Susan Smith
CERT Southeast Division
Supervisor
Salt Lake City CERT
801-910-2245
JaLae
Thompson
Emergency Services
Manager
American Red Cross – Greater Salt
Lake Area Chapter
Charlie
Eckhardt
CERT Southwest Division
Supervisor
Salt Lake City CERT
801-641-6785
Heidi Pruess
CERT Northeast Assistant
Supervisor
801-580-8978
Clyde & Cynthia
Sprau
CERT Northwest Division
Supervisor
Salt Lake City
CERT
801-322-1201
Marvin Match
Salt Lake City ARES
Coordinator
801-328-1457
BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCH
JOHN C. ELLSWORTH, CERT, K7JCE
John C. Ellsworth is a member of the Community Emergency
Response Team (CERT) in the Hidden Village neighborhood, Logan, Utah. He
completed CERT basic training April 29, 2008 and CERT Train the Trainer
course June 6, 2009. He has participated in numerous additional trainings in
various related topics, including FEMA NIMS and ICS, red-cross
sheltering-in-place, pandemic influenza response, earthquake preparedness, and
personal and family security. He is a licensed amateur radio operator (general
class, K7JCE).
He has served as co-instructor in the delivery of the CERT
basic training course to other residents of the Hidden Village neighborhood. He
assisted with the delivery of two radio communications training sessions and
implementation of four comprehensive mock disaster exercises in his neighborhood
as well.
John served as CERT responder and CERT Incident Commander
during the Canyon Road landslide/canal break incident in Logan, Utah July 11-15,
2009, along with 70 other trained CERT responders who contributed a total of 591
hours of volunteer time. The Wilson Area Volunteer Coalition, of which Hidden
Village CERT is a prominent member, received the 2010 State of Utah Volunteer
Coalition Community Preparedness Award for their response to the
landslide/canal break incident.
In the spring of 2011, John served as CERT Incident
Commander, Safety Officer, and Operations Section Chief during the Hidden
Village neighborhood preparations for and response to Logan River flooding. He
supervised over 1,100 volunteers in the deployment of more than 40,000 sandbags
for construction of flood control levees.
John Ellsworth is a consulting professional landscape
architect and environmental planner, Emeritus Professor at Utah State
University, and avid tenkara fly-fisherman. He is chair of the Utah Landscape
Architect Licensing Board, and a state council officer in Trout Unlimited, a
national coldwater fisheries conservation organization. In his spare time John
enjoys bicycling, motorcycling, photography, fly-fishing, and spending time in
the Yellowstone National Park area.
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