Community Emergency

Community Emergency Response Team Roll-out


By ron Thomas


Today we had our rollout meeting for the coming Emergency Drill Session here at LVH. Present was the director of Emergency Communications  for Lincoln County, Jim Hawley. Jim is also joined at the hip by over 45 radio HAM operators throughout Lincoln County. He is going to call the two HAMs that live in our community and try to enlist their aid for combined CERT/Lincoln County Disaster Communications as he has helped the Lost Creek residents near ONA Beach.  This is a vital part of our Emergency Plan for LVH. It will allow us to communicate with outside services if we become cutoff from our phones, electricity and professional emergency responders. Jim Hawley will supply our qualified HAM operator with the necessary equipment to put us in touch with the world. He has two repeater systems, one at Otter Rock and another at the Fire Department.

The entire plan was discussed today. Not all of the CERT team was in attendance so a second meeting will be held at 6:00 pm at the clubhouse this Friday. Volunteers willing to help the CERT team are encouraged to attend. NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH VOLUNTEERS are especially welcome.

Sometime very soon we will have an LVH Town Hall meeting to present the plan and then soon after that we will have our drill. We will be inviting CERT team members from the Newport area to come participate also.