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Sign up to be notified about weather alerts on your home and mobile phone. This system offered FREE to Okaloosa County residents will quickly notify you by phone of weather threats to your area. Code Red can call up to two numbers per address, and unlike weather radios, you will only be notified if your address is inside the highlighted warning area.
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Ready Okaloosa is a planning program that aims to help Okaloosa County citizens and Okaloosa County Emergency Management prepare for the threat of a hurricane to our area. By registering, you will inform the county of your expected evacuation plans so they can plan for expected traffic flow out of the county and evacuation shelter populations. Also by registering, you will receive in the mail literature on how to create your family's disaster plan, preparing your disaster supply kit, and more. And even further, you'll receive customized maps showing which flood and evacuation zones your home is in. All this offered FREE to Okaloosa County residents by Okaloosa County Emergency Management! This is great for folks new to the area!!
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Click the icons to go to these Helpful Websites: Okaloosa County Web Page

Florida State Division of Emergency Management

Test your Readiness Quotient!
Florida Citizens Corps Web Site

FEMA Online Training Site

Home Safety Council

Homeland Security Preparedness
National Weather Service

National Weather Service Mobile
Further Online Trainings
Check out these sites for further
disaster-response training!!!
HOMELAND RESPONDER TRAINING NETWORK
http://www.homelandresponder.org/Pages/HR-2-features.htmlThey have a library of over 200 very short videos (most are 15 minutes or less) on topics related to first responders.
http://terrorism.spcollege.edu/ Register for CEUs. Segments run approximately 1 hour in a television news show format. There is a new video every month. Recent topics include:
FEMA EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE: http://training.fema.gov/IS/crslist.asp One of the first large providers of on-line emergency management training, they now have 60 independent study courses
CENTER FOR HOMELAND DEFENSE and SECURITY: http://www.chds.us/?special/info&pgm=Noncredit The Naval Post Graduate School offers non-credit versions of two of their Master’s degree courses: Critical Infrastructure: Vulnerability Analysis and Protection and Technology for Homeland Security: Inspection and Detection Technologies
TEEX (Texas Engineering Extension Service): http://www.teexwmdcampus.com All courses require registration. Courses run from one to several hours. If you achieve 80% on the test, you receive a certificate and CEUs, (usually 0.1 to 0.4…1 to 4 hours). There are currently 11 courses in the on-line system: Public Works for WMD (CBRNE) Incidents; Basic EMS Concepts for WMD Incidents; WMD Terrorism Awareness for Emergency Responders; WMD Incident Management/Unified Command Concepts;
Introduction to SNS and Mass Prophylaxis; Botulism; Children and Nerve Agents; Canine Emergency Medical Care; Emergency Management; Bacillus Anthracis; Avian Flu
NATIONAL
CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION: http://www.bt.cdc.gov/training/ Targeted to public health audience. Recent training and webinars include: Radiological Terrorism; Learning from Katrina; Mass Antibiotic Dispensing: Using Public Information to Enhance POD Flow
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They currently have ten courses: Working in a Point of Dispensing (POD); Terrorism, Preparedness, and Public Health: An Introduction; Preparedness & Community Response to Pandemics; Personal Preparedness; Microbiology: An Introduction; HazMat Transportation Incidents: Using the Emergency Response Guidebook; Emergency Preparedness Training for Hospital Clinicians; Nuclear Terrorism: Pathways & Prevention; Mass Dispensing: A Primer for Community Leader; Your Family Disaster Plan
G-TRAIN (Georgia Training and Resource Inventory Network) -
NORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR PUBLIC HEALTH PREPAREDNESS (University of North Carolina School of Public Health): http://nccphp.sph.unc.edu/training/training_list/
Some sessions have CEUs available. Training is divided into over 30 diverse segments including Grant Writing and GIS.
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