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Colorado State Fire Chiefs’
Association Unveils Travel Website
How far would you go
to support a cause you believe in? Our full
service travel website can take you further
than you ever dreamed possible, while
helping to raise new funds for
the Colorado
State Fire Chiefs’ Association.
The Colorado State
Fire Chiefs’ Association has entered into an
agreement with YTB Travel Network, a leading
on-line travel agency, to provide our own
travel website. You, your family and
friends, as well as any member of your
department, their families and friends can
take advantage of this website.
Just book your personal and business travel
through our website,
http://www.ytbtravel.com/cofirechiefs.
Not only will you find the same airlines,
hotels and rental cars, and the same low
rates offered by other websites, but our
travel site can do so much more.
Everytime you book travel, a generous
portion of the commissions you generate will
be given directly to
the Colorado
State Fire Chiefs’ Association.
This is a great way to help
your
Association
and take advantage of great deals on
airfare, hotels, rental cars, vacations, and
other travel services at no additional cost
to you.
Ready to take your travel further?
Visit
http://www.ytbtravel.com/cofirechiefs.
Posted 12/18/07 |
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Homeland Defense
Equipment Reuse Program
Emergency responder agencies can acquire, at
no charge, radiological detection
instrumentation, Personal Protective
Equipment (PPE), e.g., Self-Contained
Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) and turnout gear,
and safety, response and recovery equipment,
vehicles, and apparatus through the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS),
Office of Grants and Training (G&T) Homeland
Defense Equipment Reuse (HDER) Program.
These equipment resources can potentially
enhance ESS critical infrastructure
protection activities as well as
organizational readiness.
The program is the result of a partnership
that includes the Department of Energy, the
U.S. Navy, and Health Physics Society. The
groups provide excess radiological detection
instrumentation and other equipment, as well
as training and technical support, to
responder agencies throughout the nation.
To assist responders in the proper operation
and maintenance of their radiological,
chemical, and biological detection and
response equipment, G&T’s Domestic
Preparedness Equipment Technical Assistance
Program provides detailed technical
information and hands-on operation and
maintenance training.
Local support for the equipment is also
available through a partnership with the
Health Physics Society. Volunteers from the
Society’s local chapters perform initial
operability checks on equipment shipments,
conduct field checks and basic maintenance
for the equipment, provide hands-on
refresher training, and serve as a local
source of expertise.
The HDER Program uses G&T’s existing
relationship with State Administrative
Agencies to administer the program for local
responder organizations. Requests can be
made quarterly, and an inventory list of
available equipment is provided at the start
of each calendar quarter. Items are
available on a first-come, first-served
basis. The Emergency Management and
Response—Information Sharing and Analysis
Center (EMR-ISAC) suggests that emergency
agencies examine the additional information,
including contacts, in the HDER Fact Sheet.
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