June 27, 2008

All Hazard Team Deployment

Late last week Minnesota got the call from Iowa for assistance on several levels to help deal with the effects of their flooding. One of the assets requested was a team from Minnesota's All Hazard Incident Management Organization.
Eight highly trained and dedicated members left for Iowa last Sunday and are there for 10 days. All Hazard Incident Management Teams are a relatively new concept and the Minnesota Organization has only been around for about 3 years, there are 60 members in the organization and when a full team gets deployed it can have up to 14 people. The basic function of the team is to arrive at a destination where local capabilities have been exhausted, literally and figuratively and develop or enhance an organizational structure that will support getting the necessary work done to bring order to chaos.
One of the myriad of things that the Minnesota Team is organizing in […]

Original post by George Esbensen and software by Elliott Back

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