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Mon Sep 1 09:40:10 BST 2008

Jane the BEST way to get to help is contact the Emergency Management folks in your HOME state. They know what's needed through what we call EMAC which is the Emergency Management Assistance Compact. In a sentence if LA or TX needs stuff or folks etc they put out an EMAC request and where your State has "excess" of that resource they then coordinate sending same. In my world of EM as in Emergency Management we call everything a Resource, stuff, skilled and unskilled folks etc. This way we don't get an MD and RN filling sand bags and a back hoe operator carrying supplies at the ER!

With that all said however you got in to help before is always a possible route too just please do not just "self deploy" if anything folks that do that hurt more in ways than help. Your skills will likely be needed at some point as the locals and other first in assets are in need of relief. 

I've sent some E-Mails home and if I ever get there I will likely end up in one of the Emergency Operations Centers as a relief person which was my role in both Katrina and Rita. A good place for an old man with more grey than brown and only 6 toes ;)

LNM from Vienna, Austria Airport
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From: Jane Harper
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Sent: Sep 1, 2008 10:20
Subject: Re: Hurricane Gustav

Is anyone aware of any plans to bring people in after the storm?  I did some
relief work after Katrina, in St. Bernard Parish, and the mayor of NO was
saying this morning that it's probably going to take a pretty sound hit
again... I'd love to go back.

Jane

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Jane Harper, PhD(c), RN, APN
Trauma Nurse Practitioner, Rockford, IL

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