Arrived Lee County

 

All set up.

The support fleet, ready to go.

Good evening.

TERT OH-1 arrived in Lee County this evening around 4PM. Team Leaders received a briefing from the Lee County Sheriff’s Office 911 Center personnel, and set up camp for the evening. They are currently adjacent to the 911 center, having set up their tent and base of operations. Following their briefing, the team offloaded their supply trailer, and got the generators operational.

The dispatchers have split into two teams, and will be working 12 hour shifts, changing at 4AM and 4PM daily. The radio technicians will likely meet with their Florida counterparts tomorrow as well to get a bearing on the infrastructure condition in the area. The team is healthy, and ready to get to work.

 

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Have Crossed into Florida

Refueling at the GA/FL state line.

TERT OH-1 this morning crossed into Florida, and as of 2PM local time, was passing through metro Ocala. They expect to be in Lee County by around 4PM.

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Outbound This Morning

The Ohio TERT Team OH-1 departed this morning from Gahanna at 06:15 following a final briefing and Invocation by Chaplain Kevin Kellogg from Violet Township Fire. Following a stop for equipment pick-up in Cincinnati, the team will stop for the evening in Central Georgia. Tuesday morning, the team will head for Southwest Florida and expects to report for duty late Tuesday afternoon.


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Evening Mission Briefing

Ohio TERT Team OH-1 received their Mission Briefing tonight. As of press time, they will be assigned to assist in Lee County, Florida. Committee Co-Chairs Mory Fuhrmann and Cody Post, Mission Team Lead Nick DiCicco, and Ohio APCO Chapter President Johnna Sells provided critical information asto the situation at hand. Also on hand were Franklin County Emergency Management and Homeland Security Director Jeff Young and Ohio EMA Director Sima Merick to offer words of support and encouragement for the coming assignment.

The team is set to depart at 06:00 on Monday morning from Gahanna.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Ohio TERT is part of the National Joint TERT Initiative. For media inquiries during their deployment, please contact Committee Co-Chair Mory Fuhrmann at fuhrmannm@mifflin-oh.gov, or Committee Member Adam Moledor at amoledor@southsummitdispatch.com

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Getting Ready To Go

Team personnel from the northern part of the state are preparing to head down to Gahanna for the briefing tonight. They are brining with them a Type-1 Mobile Communications Center from Chagrin Valley Dispatch, callsign HAVOC-1. This is a multi vectored capable unit, with the ability to function as a mobile PSAP, field command post, or personnel support unit.

Using a trailer loaned from Franklin County Emergency Management and Homeland Security, personnel from Central Ohio are loading radio equipment and other technical components. This will also be carrying the team’s personnel gear, food, and water.

Team personnel from Ohio MARCS are seen here testing one of two generators that will travel with the team to Florida.

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Ohio TERT is part of the National Joint TERT Initiative. For media inquiries during their deployment, please contact Committee Co-Chair Mory Fuhrmann at fuhrmannm@mifflin-oh.gov, or Committee Member Adam Moledor at amoledor@southsummitdispatch.com

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Ohio TERT Deploys to Florida

Following the landfall of Hurricane Ian, and receipt of a request for help, a team of Ohio 911 dispatchers, radio technicians, and support personnel are heading to Florida to lend assistance.

The Ohio TERT Team, part of the Telecommunicator Emergency Response Taskforce, are a group of public safety personnel from across Ohio who have volunteered for a 14-day deployment to assist local 911 centers, fire, EMS and law enforcement agencies whose own personnel have been on duty without break since Ian’s landfall near Cayo Costa on September 27th. Other TERT Teams from Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and others are also responding to Florida’s call for help.

The 18 member team is comprised of members from across the state, and includes personnel from centers in Strongsville, Gahanna, Urbana, Bedford, Westlake, North Lawrence, Franklin County, and the State of Ohio. They will be assigned to work 12 hour shifts in centers in the hardest hit part of Florida, to allow home agency personnel time to decompress, and address their own home situations, which were not immune from Ian’s impact.

Ohio TERT Committee Co-Chair Cody Post, who works for the City of Akron, said that the team’s goal is to assist their Florida counterparts in any way possible. “Our colleagues in Florida have endured quite a disaster, and the situation is still unfolding. Our aim, along with the other state TERT Teams, is to give the Florida dispatchers and technicians a chance to catch their breath, and figure out how their homes and loved ones fared during Ian.”

The team departs Monday morning from Gahanna, and expects to arrive in Florida on Tuesday afternoon.

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Ohio TERT is part of the National Joint TERT Initiative. For media inquiries during their deployment, please contact Committee Co-Chair Mory Fuhrmann at fuhrmannm@mifflin-oh.gov, or Committee Member Adam Moledor at amoledor@southsummitdispatch.com

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U.S. Virgin Islands Deployment

On January 4th, 2022 a team of 9 dispatchers from Northeast Ohio, under the umbrella of Chagrin Valley Dispatch prepared to leave Cleveland Hopkins International airport to travel to the U.S. Virgin Island for the work experience of a lifetime. These Dispatchers included: Matt Reinke, Vanessa Headley, and Jackie Chappuies from Chagrin Valley Dispatch – Bedford; Danielle Short from Chagrin Valley Dispatch – Brecksville; Anna Calabrese, Tom Downs, and Jayme Kacica from Chagrin Valley Dispatch – Cleveland Heights; and Erin Iorillo and Christine Eddy from Southwest Emergency Dispatch. Our 10th team member, Becky Naymik from Southwest Emergency Dispatch met us in St Croix on January 5th.

This trip would consist of two teams of 5 working in the two 911 Emergency Communications centers in the U.S. Virgin Islands; St. Thomas and St. Croix.

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