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FEMA Region IX Staff Escape From Alcatraz - At 7:15 a.m. on a recent clear, chilly morning, two FEMA Region IX staffers took the HealthierFeds Initiative to a whole new depth when Tomas Kaselionis and Heather Duschell from the National Preparedness Division jumped six feet from the side of a boat anchored hard by the infamous Alcatraz prison, into the 58-degree waters of the San Francisco Bay.
FEMA Mobile Emergency Response System team thrives on challenge - Mark Hall remembers the day, Thursday, Sept. 20, when the call came in from the Disaster Emergency Communications Division. His chief, who had taken the call, directed this Mobile Emergency Response Support telecommunications manager to gather his Thomasville, Ga., detachment and "hit the road" for a mission in West Virginia.amilies - FEMA Region I touts their 2012 Feds Feed Families Food Drive as a huge success, and give much of the credit to the remarkable efforts of Nulise Francois, Region I emergency management program specialist.
Everyday Continuity - We tend to think of Continuity of Operations, or COOP, as what we do when a mushroom cloud appears over a city…”break glass, open the COOP Plan!” In fact, Continuity of Operations is all around us, it is what we do when our “normal” processes or facilities/resources are not available to us.
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October is National Community Planning Month. FEMA invites you to celebrate National Community Planning Month during the month of October as an opportunity to highlight the contributions sound planning and plan implementation make to the resilience of our communities.
Mark your calendars for Fire Prevention Week October 7-13. This year's theme is "Have Two Ways Out." The U.S. Fire Administration encourages you to develop a fire escape plan that has two ways out of every room in your house and to practice your plan in a home drill. Afterwards, share your stories and photos with Teresa Neal and receive a certification. Also, you are invited to visit the Office of the Fire Administration Administrator on Thursday, Oct. 11, from 10 a.m. until noon at FEMA Headquarters in room 719 at 500 C. Street to learn more about fire safety and taking the home fire drill challenge. For more information, check out our Fire Prevention Week blog.
Help FEMA Prevent Fraud, Waste and Abuse. If you have information about instances of fraud, waste, abuse, or mismanagement involving FEMA programs or operations, you should contact the DHS OIG Hotline at: 1-800-323-8603; by fax at 202-254-4297; or e-mail DHSOIGHOTLlNE@dhs.gov.
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