The following Incident Reports are for public viewing and are documented by 911 in the areas that "VMERU" volunteers served this past year.Included in this report are "VMERU" fundraisers and local calls for assistance by other not-for-profit Organizations.

January 5th 2009- Structure Fire -Dispatched by 911 Location:Caldwell County

January 6th 2009- Structure Fire - Dispatched by 911 Location:Caldwell County

January 18th 2009- Structure Fire/Vehicles involved-dispatched by 911-Location:Caldwell County

Volunteer Mobile Emergency Response Unit (VMERU) approaches 2010 with low material resource levels.

A busy Summer has eaten into VMERU's stores and with Spring fund raisers and warmer weather months away the unit is ready for brief deployments but the "big one" will need a resource build-up or outside logistical ground support.

So what can we do if the call comes today? (Read more)

Central Texas Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (CTXVOAD) is a coalition of nonprofit organizations that work together and share resources and knowledge to ensure effective disaster response and recovery through Cooperation, Communication, Coordination, and Collaboration.

Our goal is to combine our resources in effort to reduce duplication of services and maximize resources available to those affected by a disaster.

Members of CTXVOAD provide a variety of services, which address the four phases of disaster: Preparation, Response, Recovery and Mitigation.

If you would prefer to take the ICS 100 and ICS 700 courses in a classroom setting rather than on-line it will be made available on December 4th at 8:00 a.m.(2009)

Jim Parker will be teaching the class. Jim is the Caldwell County (Lockhart) Emergency Manager. There is a $ 10.00 per person fee for the class and it will include your snacks and beverages as well as the training materials.

The Volunteer Mobile Emergency Response Unit invites the public to come join us in Maxwell Texas to celebrate National Night Out. There will be door prizes,snacks and other items of interest.Please help support your local heroes and National Night Out! We will begin at 6pm at the Maxwell Volunteer Fire Department in Maxwell Texas.If you have any questions or need directions please contact us at : 512-897-0032 OR 512-215-4595

Please Read:

What is National Night Out?

It's America's Night Out Against Crime!

A new self-study course, IS-197.EM Special Needs Planning Considerations for Emergency Management, is now available from Emergency Management Institute's Independent Study Program at http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/IS197EM.asp .

This course is designed for emergency management and first responder personnel to enable them to better understand the special needs population and teach how to partner with persons with special needs as well as their support providers and organizations.

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

A new self-study course, IS-26, Guide to Points of Distribution
Course, is now available from Emergency Management Institute's Independent Study Program.

View the Points of Distribution (POD) video, available at http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/IS26.asp . Closed captioning is available from the toolbar.

The Volunteer Mobile Emergency Response Unit (VMERU) can now accept donations online via PayPal and major credit cards.

Make a donation in the amount of your choice.

The Volunteer Mobile Emergency Response Unit was born from a perception. Many of the volunteer fire departments in Central Texas have limited resources and better care of responders should be provided at large-scale incidents. Somebody should do something. Somebody is.

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