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Integrating Pets into Your Emergency ...

Kitten being rescued from flood
What is the PETS Act? The Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act (PETS) of 2006 was passed following Hurricane Katrina.     Images of abandoned animals, as well as the knowledge that many individuals and families refused to evacuate when they found that they couldn’t take their pets with them spurred legislators into passi [...]

A Profile of the Arlington CERT progr...

A photo of the sculpture "Menotomy Indian Hunter," by Cyrus Dallin
The First CERT Program in Massachusetts The success of the Arlington, Massachusetts CERT program is due to the vision and dedication of a few individuals who believed that citizens have an important role in community preparedness, response and mitigation. Sticking with their vision for decades, Joe Marshall and a few other individuals are cre [...]

Did the Tragedy in Washington State H...

A destroyed building
Photo: LA Times The mudslide that ripped through Oso, Washington, on Saturday morning has claimed more lives.   Emergency services have recovered five more bodies, bringing the death count to eight, with over a dozen hospitalized.  There are still a dozen or more people unaccounted for, and hopes for rescuing additional survivors are fad [...]

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