Dr. Jimmy Tickel Emergency Programs, NCDA & CS AERT Program Dr. Jimmy Tickel Emergency Programs, NCDA & CS
Natural Disasters Agriculture and Farm Communities
AERT’s Drought, Hurricanes, Tornados….. Yancey County luncheon during drought to discuss way forward
Ag Emergency Response Teams AERTs Goal: provide help to fill the gaps farmers and farming communities encounter immediately after natural disasters Use what we know works Add personnel & equipment to it Bring the program to the local level….
What’s needed ?? 24 hr. Emergency Hotline Feedback from farming communities Assessment of damage Five Task areas Farm access Harvestability Fence repair Tarping Field Debris removal
Plan of Attack Develop/refine web based tools Form response team model Information Help exchange pages Matching the “Have’s” with the “Needs” Form response team model Volunteers from NCDA & CS Expand to local level Helping hand
Web Pages: Information
Web Page: Tornado response
Web Pages: Links
Exchange Sites
Web Exchange Site
AgERT: Response Teams Teams Number of Personnel ** CHAIN SAW 15 TARPING 24 FIELD DEBRIS 36 FENCE REPAIR 31 HARVESTABILITY 23 ** Most personnel volunteered for more than one team
Mission Flow: Request Assess/Farm County EOC State EOC AgEOC Extension NCDA & CS Farmers County EOC Request for Team State EOC AgEOC Coordinate activation/ deployment
Mission Flow: Activation AgEOC Coordination of available resources with prioritized requests Commissioner’s Objectives Community/ Industry Response Resource availability
Mission Flow: Deployment County Farm Task Teams will work at discretion of requesting county NCDA & CS will have input through Team leader and County EOC rep.
AERT Trailers
Equipment Two trailers 6’ x 12’ single 3500 lb axle Staged: Kinston Morganton
State HS grant Seed the AERT concept to the local level Expand the Web based tools Add another equipment trailer
State HS grant Goal: Stage 1 Take AERT concept to DPR County 1
X 3 State HS grant Goal: Stage 2 DPR County 1 County 3 County 4
Partnerships Farm community ownership Partnerships State and Local Govt. Groups and Associations Farm Bureau Grange Rural Center Faith Based Groups
State HS grant What counties do you recommend?? DPR County 1 County 2