Hurricane Awareness Seminar

Edward McCrane – Sarasota Co. EMS Dir.

Gerald Mallet – Charlotte Co. EMS Dir.

Bonnie Jacobs – American Red Cross

 

Information will be available on evacuation routes, shelters, preparation for your family, home, pets, and much more.

 

Suncoast Community Blood Mobile will be on site for donations from 1:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m.

 

Nonperishable food donations would be greatly appreciated to benefit Englewood Helping Hand.

 

Always Be Prepared!

Certainly we have been blessed with not having a direct hit by a hurricane in Englewood for over 75 years, however; the possibility certainly exists.

EMC is in the planning stages of training folks to be prepared for an emergency event like a hurricane, major fire, power failure, etc., so that we can take care of ourselves before we can offer help to others.

Charlotte County recently held a 3-day training program to prepare individuals & groups to handle emergencies through a program called CERT (Community Emergency Response Team).  Currently there are 2 CERT response teams organized in South Gulf Cove and Rotonda.  For more details about CERT go to charlottecountycert@gmail.com.

It is our plan to organize a trained group from the Englewood area consisting not only of EMC members, but members of our local community.  We will have a table in Fellowship Hall for sign-ups.

Thank you,
Peter Patrick, EMC Disaster Coordinator