[nagdu] American Red Cross

[NCBootman]

Bibi,

While you could list these resources on your website, take some real action. 
I organize the programs for the Visually Impaired group in my town. We had 
the Emergency Preparedness person for our county come and speak. If someone 
is in an emergency situation, they won't have time to go looking online for 
resources and chances are they may not even be able to get to the website. 
So, what our Emergency Management Director asked us all to do is contact his 
office and fill out a form over the phone to be in their Directory of 
Special Needs people. If there is a fire, flood, chemical or any disaster, 
they activate that list and notify the authorities involved of  anyone in 
their area who has special circumstances. He said while all shelters are 
required to take service animals, if we know you exist and have a service 
animal, we can make sure you go to a shelter that has better facilities to 
deal with this. All shelter sites are not necessarily equal in all 
situations. This could be true for a mobility impaired person as well. 
Shelter A may be the best choice but shelter B is also doable. This is also 
useful if for example the fire is headed your way, the fire department 
already knows they have a blind person with a dog to make sure is safe, a 
person on oxygen, or in a wheelchair. This is the best way to be prepared in 
my opinion. This also covers us if by chance the tv runs something across 
the screen and does not say it. For me, it's just like buying insurance. Now 
somebody knows who and where I am but I hope all my other information 
gathering skills will work and I won't need them.

Greg

-----Original Message----- 
From: Criminal Justice Major
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 6:53 AM
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Subject: [nagdu] American Red Cross

Hi, all,
I just did a google search for the American Red cross web site and the link 
will be below:
http://www.redcross.org
www.redcross.org
I will probably go back later on to look up the contact information and plan 
on writing it down in braille as the same one for the CRC web site here in 
Colorado.
I am hoping that their web site will be able to have a lot of helpful 
resources.
I have yet to finish reading the web site to find out if any of their 
shelter policies have been updated.
Last I remember back in 2005, I contacted the Milehigh Denver Red Cross 
chapter to ask questions as far as where would people be able to find an 
emergency evacuation shelter in situations like disasters like the wild 
fires here in the state of Colorado along with one in Wyoming and In New 
Mexico.
A Red cross representative informed me that by law, all of their shelters do 
have to allow those who do have guide/assistance dogs into their shelters 
and the dogs are to be allowed in with their handlers.
Another question I wanted to ask is would the web site owner be able to have 
this listed under the resources link?
I figure that would be a good idea so if people should end up in disasterous 
situations any time, they will be able to hop on the web site to look it up.
I also came across the Colorado Red Cross web site for Colorado and that 
link is:
http://www.coloradoredcross.org
I'm sure for those here in Colorado who are in the paths of the wild fires 
such as guide dog teams and others with service dogs would find this handy.
Just thought I'd share.
Bibi, husband Dale and son Odie
the happy spirited bounty labra wolf
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