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This working group is focused on discussions about communication.

The mission of this working group is to focus on discussions about communication.

Members

Jan Booher jperodin Kathy Gilbeaux mdmcdonald MDMcDonald_me_com

Email address for group

cfl_dri_communication@m.resiliencesystem.org

'Everyone Would Have Left': Putting Lessons From Hurricane Michael To Work

           

A boat moved by Hurricane Michael rests near a canal in May in Mexico Beach, Fla. Seven months after the hurricane made landfall, the town is still littered with heavily damaged or destroyed homes and businesses.  Scott Olson/Getty Images

npr.org - by Greg Allen - June 7, 2019

As another hurricane season begins, emergency managers and other officials throughout the Southeast and along the Gulf Coast are applying lessons they learned last year during Hurricane Michael. Those lessons include how they conduct evacuations . . .

 . . . we're going to start seeing a lot of things change . . . 

 . . . Among those likely changes: how people prepare for storms, how many evacuate and how strong new construction on Florida's Panhandle will need to be to survive hurricanes like Michael.

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Central Florida Disaster Resilience Initiative Phase 1 Stage 3 Discussion

April 12, 2019

Central Florida Disaster Resilience Initiative participants discuss the work that was done in Phase 1 Stage 1 and Phase 1 Stage 2, following which they discuss future Central Florida DRI plans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bob0-162Ydc

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FBI Searches Florida Mail Center in Hunt for Sender of Package Bombs

           

FBI searches Florida mail center in hunt for sender of package bombs | Reuters

reuters.com - by Zachary Fagenson - October 25, 2018

Authorities found two more suspicious packages on Friday addressed to U.S. Senator Cory Booker and James Clapper, the former U.S. director of national intelligence, amid a manhunt for the person who sent bombs to prominent Democrats and critics of U.S. President Donald Trump . . .

 . . . Meanwhile, a local police bomb squad and canine units joined federal investigators on Thursday to examine a sprawling U.S. mail distribution center at Opa-Locka, northwest of Miami, Miami-Dade County police said.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said that Florida appeared to be the starting point for at least some of the bomb shipments.

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Communications System - Colored Cards on doors

I have contacted Lt. Shane DeJarnett with the following email content, and will post any protocols I receive into this group. In my conversation with Lt. De Jarnett, he said that different vehicles are sent to a location if a medical evacuation is needed, so there would need to be some discussion and refinement regarding what the cards communicate.

Hello Lt. DeJarnett,

Grand Jury Reports - 2017 Fall Term – As Storm Clouds Gathered: The Preparation for and Aftermath of Hurricane Irma

miamisao.com - Filed August 1, 2018

The Fall Term 2017 Grand Jury is releasing this report during Hurricane Season 2018, approximately one-and-a-half-months shy of the one year anniversary of Hurricane Irma making landfall in South Florida.  Based on information we received regarding the preparation for and the aftermath of Hurricane Irma’s impact on South Florida, this Grand Jury decided to conduct an investigation of this topic.

Grand Jury Reports - 2017 Fall Term – As Storm Clouds Gathered: The Preparation for and Aftermath of Hurricane Irma
(37 page .PDF document)
http://www.miamisao.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Grand-Jury-Fall-2017-Report-As-Storm-Clouds-Gathered-FINAL.pdf 

Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office - Grand Jury Reports
http://www.miamisao.com/resources/grand-jury-reports/

 

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