E TN VOAD

2011-11-20T10:42:00.000-05:00

MEETING NOTICE

2011-05-23T10:30:00.003-04:00

The next E TN Regional VOAD meeting will be:

2 FEB, 2012 at 10:00am

PLEASE SEND STORIES of YOUR RESPONSE

2011-05-10T13:58:00.003-04:00

E TN VOAD Members: Please send your organization's participation in the relief and recovery efforts from the Tennessee storms to Mary Beth: birgemb@knoxarc.org . Please let us know what you have been doing, problems you may have encountered, things that have worked well, and a couple of pictures if you have any. In other words, please share what you think is significant about your organizations response. THANKS A BUNCH !

TVA DAMS HOLDING BACK WATER

2011-05-04T01:54:00.000-04:00

TVA dams holding back water to help prevent downstream flooding

By Dick Byrd Daily Times Correspondent

As East Tennessee and much of the South mourn the storm deaths and clean up the tornado damage, a new major problem is beginning. This one is a flood — a big flood that could reach historic proportions in some areas along the Mississippi River and its tributaries. It could be an even worse flood except for the work done by The Tennessee Valley Authority.
A combination of snow melt and ongoing heavy rain has worked to make the mighty Mississippi swell beyond its banks. Flooding is also a big problem on the Ohio and Arkansas Rivers, themselves major rivers that also happen to feed into the Mississippi. And it isn’t close to being over yet. Emergency officials in Shelby County estimated that 5,300 homes and businesses will likely be affected by flooding as the Mississippi River and its backed-up tributaries keep swelling. Properties include single-family homes, commercial and industrial properties, and apartments in at least 17 of the 41 zip codes in Shelby County, which includes Memphis.

RED CROSS / VOAD EXERCISE POSTPONED

2011-05-03T20:27:00.000-04:00

Due to last week’s storms, the Red Cross/VOAD Exercise scheduled for
Wednesday, May 4, 2011, has been postponed. We will let you know the
new date as soon as possible. Thank you.

Jenny Holden
Training Coordinator
TN Homeland Security District 2
605 Bernard Avenue
Knoxville, TN 37921
865-215-1161 (office)
865-215-1176 (fax)
jenny.holden@knoxcounty.org

4 MAY TABLE-TOP EXERCISE POSTPONED

2011-04-29T22:03:00.000-04:00

Due to the relief and recovery responses to the recent storms, the American Red Cross/TN Homeland Security District 2 Tabletop Exercise scheduled for 4 May is postponed and will be re-scheduled at a later date.

27 APR CHATTANOOGA STORM DAMAGE VIDEOS

2011-04-27T16:57:00.000-04:00

Please click on this link to view video of the damage caused by the 27 April storm system that swept through the Tennessee Valley;
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2011/apr/27/live-coverage-severe-weather-conditions-chattanoog/

E TN Quarterly Meeting

2011-04-26T13:44:00.003-04:00

The next Quarterly E TN VOAD meeting normally held the first Thursday in May has been postponed until June 9th because of the Red Cross exercise on 4 May.

The 9 June meeting will be held in the Alcoa Fire Department's training room at 9:30am in their HQ at 2010 North Wright Road, Alcoa, TN, near the TYS airport.

Here's a link to Google map of the location. Chief Robinson has asked us to park in the Alcoa Police parking lot that is co-located there with the Fire Department :

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Alcoa+Fire+Department,+Wrights+Road,+Alcoa,TN&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wl

Please let me ( Mulsand@aol.com ) know if you wish to add anything to the agenda. I think most of the meeting will be a discussion of the ARC exercise, and our organizations' responses to the Knoxville floods and the Greenback tornado. We will also be discussing our participation in the regional Emergency and Disaster Preparedness Fair at Chilhowee Park on 24 September. Please put that date on your calendar and direct any questions you may have about the Fair to Tristie Ebbert ( tristi@tds.net ).

"Great Central U.S. ShakeOut"

2011-04-13T13:12:00.008-04:00

2011 ShakeOut: 10:15 a.m. on 28 April

Participate in the "Great Central U.S. ShakeOut" to practice how to protect yourself during earthquakes, and to get prepared.

http://www.shakeout.org/centralus/

http://www.cusec.org/

http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2009/3071/

NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE EXERCISE IN MAY

2011-04-06T11:01:00.005-04:00

NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE EXERCISE: MAY 16 - 19
Please make sure that your organization has current contacts and resources listings in our TNVOAD Resource Directory. Contacts, please make sure you are prepared to give delivery times on your resources.

Please contact Rhonda Haight with questions and changes. rchaight@peoplepc.com

National Level Exercise 2011 Information VIA Our Partners:

May 16-20, 2011

Central US Earthquake Consortium

Get Ready to Shake Out at ShakeOut.org

The purpose of National Level Exercise 2011 (NLE 2011) is to prepare and coordinate a multiple-jurisdictional integrated response to a national catastrophic event – specifically a major earthquake in the central United States region of the New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ).

NLE 2011 will involve thousands of government officials at the federal, state, local and tribal levels, members of the private sector, and the general public. Participants will conduct simultaneous, related exercise activities at command posts, emergency operation centers and other locations in the Washington D.C. area and the eight affected central U.S. states (Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee). The functional exercise will offer agencies and jurisdictions a way to validate their plans and skills in a real-time, realistic environment and to gain the in-depth knowledge that only experience can provide.

NLE 2011 is also an opportunity to continue to highlight to the public the need to be prepared for earthquakes, and specific steps they can take to be ready.

Fact Sheets

Press Releases

Expected Participants for the Great Central U.S. ShakeOut Tops One Million

FEMA Urges Public To Be Prepared On Anniversary Of New Madrid Quake

Training

As part of this exercise, FEMA's National Exercise Division (NED) and Emergency Management Institute (EMI) have developed a series of training programs to assist in preparing participants. This guide provides readers with an easy way to identify and access training information for participants at Federal Headquarters, Federal Regional Offices, State/Local/Tribal Offices, and Private Sector/NGOs.

Training courses for the 2011 National Level Exercises 1.5 Mb PDF

More Information About NLE

National Level Exercise 2011 is designated as a Tier I National Level Exercise. Tier I exercises (formerly known as the Top Officials exercise series or TOPOFF) are conducted annually in accordance with the National Exercise Program (NEP), which serves as the nation’s overarching exercise program for planning, organizing, conducting and evaluating national level exercises. The NEP was established to provide the U.S. government, at all levels, exercise opportunities to prepare for catastrophic crises ranging from terrorism to natural disasters.

This year - 2011 - is the bicentennial anniversary of the 1811 New Madrid earthquake, for which the NMSZ is named. NLE 2011 will be the first NLE to simulate a natural hazard.

NLE is led by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), mandated by Congress, and directed by the White House. The states involved encompass four different FEMA regions: Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee (FEMA Region IV); Illinois and Indiana (FEMA Region V); Arkansas (FEMA Region VI); and Missouri (FEMA Region VII).

New TN VOAD Web Site

2011-04-06T10:22:00.002-04:00

http://tnvoad.squarespace.com

The temporary Domain Name (url) is tnvoad.squarespace.com, but the original "tnvoad.org" Domain Name will be retrieved and used soon.

Anyone wishing to post a news item, or photographs relating to a Tennessee disaster, disaster response, or TN VOAD Member Agency training, award, or social event, should contact: DisasterReliefTN@aol.com

THANKS !

E TN GOOGLE GROUP UPDATE

2008-02-17T14:35:00.017-05:00

Greetings ET VOAD Members:

A reminder to please update your Google Group profiles to include yourfull name, organization and contact information. To do this, after logging on to the ET VOAD google group, locate the"profile" link in the upper right corner of the screen (just to theleft of the "sign-out" link). Click on this link and follow the update profile directions. Thanks for taking care of this.

Regards...
John Jarrard
Chair, ET VOAD

E TN Google Group Registration

2007-12-12T15:54:00.001-05:00

Hello All,

We have created a Google Group with information posted about East Tennessee VOAD. You will find the Resource Listing, meeting minutes, VOAD By-laws, etc. This is where we will keep updated information on our organization.

To have access to this group, you will need to first request membership by logging in to http://www.groups.google.com/group/easttnvoad.

You will be able to download the Resource Listing to your own computer so you can make copies for those in your organization who will need it. Also, if your organization is not included in the Resource Listing, this means that we either do not have your information or the information we have is not complete.

Managing Spontaneous Volunteers in Times of Disaster

2007-12-12T15:25:00.000-05:00

The Synergy of Structure and Good Intentions

Click here < http://nvoad.org/ManagingSpontaneousVol.pdf > to download a PDF file that was created and published with the generous support of The UPS Foundation. This publication is offered as a basis for developing a national strategy on working with unaffiliated volunteers and is based on an analysis of effective practices and models. It is an outgrowth of an earlier publication, Preventing a Disaster Within the Disaster: The Effective Use and Management of Unaffiliated Volunteers, which outlined the challenges involved in working with unaffiliated volunteers and offered recommendations on how to develop a national strategy.

E TN VOAD - Introduction to Bulletin Board

2007-10-24T03:20:00.000-04:00

This blog was created to be a "bulletin board" for members of East Tennessee Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (E TN VOAD).