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Russell C. Coile
Neighborhood Emergency Response Teams (NERT)
I attended the San Francisco Fire Department's "train-the-
trainers" course for NERT instructors at Monterey on July 28-
30, 1997. (Pacifi c Grove's NERT program is called Volunteers
in Preparedness). This was actually a refresher course for me as
I had attended the fi rst of the San Francisco Fire Department's
trainer courses in January, 1994 at Concord but the course has
been improved during the past three years.
Disaster Preparedness Talks
A number of different organizations in Pacifi c Grove or in
the local area requested talks on disaster preparedness by me,
as listed below:
"Flood and earthquake preparedness" - Hacienda Carmel,
March 26, 1997
"Earthquake preparedness" - Men's Club of the Carmel
Foundation, March 31,1997
"Earthquake preparedness" - El Rancho Mobile Homes
Park, Marina, April 22, 1997
"Earthquake preparedness" - Charles Apartments, Marina
on April 21, 1997. Preparedness literature in Vietnamese,
Korean, Spanish, and English was given to residents.
"Disaster preparedness" - Pacifi c Grove Police Department's
Citizens' Police Academy on May 8, 1997. Thirteen of the
students indicated an interest in attending in the future the
Fire Department's Volunteers in Preparedness neighborhood
emergency response team training.
"Communications" at an Internet Conference. On
September 29, I was one of four invited speakers on an Internet
Live Online Conference of the Emergency Information
Infrastructure Program (EIIP) sponsored by FEMA and the
National Coordinating Council on Emergency Management. I
discussed California's Operational Area Satellite Information
System (OASIS) and answered questions from the nationwide
audience. The other panelists were: Dr. Lin, National Research
Council; Dr. Ward, U.S. Geological Survey; and Lois McCoy,
National Urban Search & Rescue.