Letters to MESS

 

MAY 22, 2010

The men and women of the Metropolitan Emergency Support Services Inc. Would like to welcome you to our response area. Gurnee Fire Department has given us the use of their training room on a special day. The day is also the Lake County Illinois “Fire Expo” This will be held at Gurnee Mills about 1 mile from the IFBA meeting. After the meeting you will be invited to attend this event and tour the Fire Apparatus and displays.

Mess will have Canteen # 6 and Bus #5 on display at this event as well. “Flight for Life” helicopter landings, special team’s demonstrations as well as good food will be for your inspection.  Photo’s are welcome so bring your cameras.

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.

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