BEMA...Every Month is Preparedness Month.....September is National Preparedness Month

TO our members in Canada, South & Central America, the Caribbean, Cuba, Nigeria, Togo, Kenya, and the Middle-East join your U.S. members in planning a preparedness week or day in solidarity & unity of all our communities.

Join our members in Nigeria currently experiencing the devastating effect of the Ebola pandemic affecting the nations of West Africa, and in hope that all the member nations of the African continent select a scheduled date(s) to show solidarity & unity by joining Sierra Leone, Liberia, and others by voluntarily closing their borders, transportation sectors, and reviewing their public health plans and procedures to contain this disease.

September is a month of preparedness, and reflection on September 11, 2001 where the entire country reacted to a planned threat and shut-down all both internal and external transportation (airlines) sectors to contain a threat to ensure the nation, the constituents of the U.S., and world that the U.S. was safe.

Be safe, Be prepared.

Charles D. Sharp.  CEO.  Black Emergency Managers Association

http://www.ready.gov/september

During National Preparedness Month  you, your family, community and workplace can take action by planning a National PrepareAthon! Day on or around September 30th. Recommend that you use digital media tools as a way to promote National Preparedness Month, September 1-30th.

What you can do to promote National Preparedness Month:

• Check out the How to Get Involved in NPM Quick Guide
• Download the 2014 National Preparedness Month Digital Engagement Toolkit
• Share NPM messages on Social Media
• View and share the new Ready Campaign Public Service Announcements
• Join Thunderclap message on let your followers know that it’s National Preparedness Month with your followers. How does Thunderclapwork? Once you sign up, Thunderclap will sync your social media accounts to release an automatic Facebook post, Tweet or both on September, 2, 2014 at 2:00 PM reminding your friends and followers to make a family emergency plan.
• Join the National Preparedness Community and download the high resolution NPM logo
• Promote NPM by updating your Facebook and Twitter cover photo and profile image
• For NPM materials in Spanish please visit:www.ready.gov/es/septiembre
• Register for National PrepareAthon! Day: www.ready.gov/prepare

Federal Grants to Local Fire Departments Offer Up-to-Date Equipment and Training to Stations Large and Small

BEFORE THE DOOR IS SHUT!

Paradigm Shift:  

                     Redirecting grants and funding from 

                     community law enforcement, and fire departments 

                     to community 501(c)(3) nonprofits.

           How:   -Establish a volunteer fire station,

                       -Utilize FEMA 'free' online learning classes,

                       -Attend Program Manager and Train-the-Trainer

                          CERT (Community Emergency Response Team)

                          FEMA courses in Emittsburg, MD

                       -Establish a CERT team specifically for your community

                       -Have volunteer fire station as training, and education

                          facility for FEMA, fire and other training,

                       -Have volunteer fire station designated as a polling\voting

                          location in your community,

                       -Unlimited possibilities

                   

Federal Grants to Local Fire Departments Offer Up-to-Date Equipment and Training to Stations Large and Small

08/29/2014 10:53 AM EDT

New York, NY -- The Atlantic City Fire Department has some 250 full-time firefighters and six fire stations serving a southern New Jersey population of 40,000.  The department received last month a federal Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) of almost $490,000 to replace personal protective equipment ravaged by Hurricane Sandy and years of on-the-job use.  The local share of the grant brought the total to $543,400.