January, 2004

Volume 1, Issue 1
 

DES NEWS

Jan 6-Jan 15 LEPC Logo Contest entries displayed downtown

Ballots available at DES office

Meet our staff

Letter from Karen

The DES office is starting off the new year with the publication of this new newsletter. I hope to share useful information about local emergency management issues with you through this newsletter.

I also encourage you to submit information for publication in this newsletter whenever you come across something you feel would be important for other emergency managers to know.

Emergency management is a cooperative effort, and I appreciate your continued willingness to spend time, energy, and resources working together with me and other local emergency management to assist our local emergency management efforts.

Happy New Year!

copies of Montana’s Take-Along Winter Survival  Handbook available at DES office.

Karen Marks

 

 

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Montana Occupational Safety and Health Training Institute Courses

To register:

Call (406) 444-6401

Or go online to

http://www.montanasafety.com/
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All Emergency Winter Fair Task Force

Several organizations around town are working in conjunction with government and emergency management organizations to arrange booths and activities for the Winter Fair.

Potential activities so far include craft booths with posters and games, meth lab hazard identification, and how to information on creating disaster kits.

The DES office will be doing an emergency car kit demonstration on Monday, January 26, Friday the 30^th, and Saturday the 31^st. A demonstrator will describe and assemble a kit on stage for the public in order to educate them about the purpose and contents of a car disaster kit. Saturday, at the end of the demonstrations the sample kit (or kits) will be raffled off.

Winter Car Kit Tips

Keep a piece of rope under your driver’s seat.

If you become stranded in a winter storm, especially a blizzard, tie the rope to the bottom of your seat or steering wheel, then to yourself, before attempting to exit the vehicle, even to access the trunk. Disorientation

can happen exceedingly quickly, and many individuals have become lost and frozen after leaving their vehicle.

If you have not stocked rope or can not find it after an accident in a blizzard, make sure to maintain contact with the vehicle with one hand at all times

when going to the trunk. When preparing for a road trip in dangerous weather conditions, move your car kit items such as your sleeping bag, candles, matches, etc. in your back seat. If you are injured, you may not be able to leave your vehicle to access the trunk.