In this month's eNews read about how you and your department can work towards getting the community involved in disaster response. By training the community in non-firefighting response roles, it frees up the availability of firefighters to do the work they are specially trained to do.
Community disasters provide us with an opportunity to not only help our community but to build our communities. Emergencies and disasters may spark interest in community members to become auxiliary members of fire organizations.Do you have a CERT team?