The team was initially stood down from a potential deployment to Florida, and no sooner had that message been passed than an EMAC request came through from the North Carolina Emergency Management Agency. Helene’s inland impact has been catastrophic in areas of Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, and North Carolina. Flash flooding has cut off many areas of several states, and even washed away parts of interstate highways.
Ohio TERT has been assigned to report to Catawba County, North Carolina on Tuesday. The team will rally at Cambridge, Ohio on Monday afternoon. They will receive a briefing and invocation, share a dinner with the support team, and department early Tuesday morning. The team’s make-up for this deployment is (19) personnel, and includes dispatchers, line supervisors, and radio technicians from PSAPs across the state as well as Ohio MARCS. In addition to the personnel, the team is taking Chagrin Valley Dispatch’s Type III field communications unit (callsign HAVOC), a cache of (48) radios, a mobile repeater tower, and various stuffs to support the team.