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Free Red Cross Mass Care & Disaster Action Team Training on Vashon

May 6

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DAT2011FlyerThe Seattle Red Cross will conduct a free two-day Volunteer training on Saturday June 4, and Saturday June 11, 2011, from 9:00am-6:00pm. (Both days are obligatory.) The training will be held at Vashon Island Fire & Rescue, 10020 Southwest Bank Road.

According to Jeff Isaacson, Volunteer Recruitment Coordinator for American Red Cross Serving King & Kitsap Counties, people will be trained in both Mass Care and Disaster Action Team (DAT). So the classes will cover sheltering, disaster assessment, Safe and Well linking, and client casework (i.e. when the Red Cross responds to a fire).

Disaster Action Teams are "teams of trained Red Cross workers sent to the scene of a disaster to provide immediate disaster relief to those affected by disaster and to emergency workers responding to the incident. DAT workers often consist of both paid workers and volunteers."

For more information email jeff.isaacson@seattleredcross.org, call (206) 720-5394, or speak with Cathy Rogers with Vashon Emergency Preparedness Committee (VEPC) and VashonBePrepared.

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