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Attention All MESS Members.
Chief of Operations Terry B. Cox

I have 14 applications for membership in MESS. I would like to act on these memberships. I would also ask all MESS members that know of any other people that have shown an interest in becoming a member, to fill out an application ASAP and get it to me.

It will be necessary to hold an orientation class. It will be a distant advantage for them to be able to attend this class. MESS has become a very integrated organization we will need to explain to our members how they would be a part of this and that there is parts they may not want to be part of.

Any MESS members that have questions about how or why we do certain things may want to attend this class as well. We will answer any questions you may have about the operations. Some of our members have not attended an orientation meeting so this will be your opportunity to get up to speed.

Some of the Lake County Fire Chiefs feel it would be helpful to educate our members in some of the functions that we may be called on to help with. The NFPA has moved deeper into the Logistics’ of rehab. Therefore in the near future they will be offering some classes that will be sponsored by them. Because the classes will be certified by the Office of the State Fire Marshal and be taught via the Illinois Fire Institute this would allow you to be certified in these operations.

FEMA

All members will be asked to become certificated in IS-100.a, IS-200.a and IS-700.a these are the basic introductions to the Incident Command System. Most of our members are already certified in these three components of the FEMA and NIMS. Together this makes MESS- NIMS compliant. Any members whom are not certificated need to let us know so we can get this done. These classes can be done on the inter-net in the comfort of your home or the Lake County EMA office is offering the classes’ thru-out the county. There is no cost in these classes. If you have recently attained classes and you have not given us copies of the certificate please do so.

Remembering When!

Because MESS, is a support service we have been asked by the Lake Forest Fire Department to join the Lake Forest coalition that has been formed to teach the seniors  how to be safe in extreme emergency’s. At our last meeting I asked if anyone would be interested in attending a class that would teach you to help teach “Remembering When” classes.

Eleven of you volunteered to attend this class that will be at the Lake Forest Fire Station #2 on January 22, 2009. Go the web site and click on the calendar for that event and you can get all the information. Because the class will be from 10:00am to 2:00pm a lunch will be served.