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From:
Lila Hayes
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005
To: info@oldfirerecoverygroup.org
Subject: OFRG weekly update
Meeting
Reminder
Our next meeting is Sunday April 10 and will be an
interior Design Workshop led by Denise Turner the former president of the local
chapter of the ASID. We had many compliments the last time she joined us
so we look forward to her return.
Lila Hayes
Old Fire Recovery Group
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Index
1. Request for CARe testimonials
2. McGraw-Hill Construction
Services
3. "From Chaos to Community" by Community
Partners.
4. Senate Bill 477
On the Web
1.
DisasterHelp.gov
2. flash.org
In the News
1. New resident
helps rebuild blaze area (Press Enterprise)
2. Shining a light on forest safety (Press
Enterprise)
3. State study rings
alarm (The
Sun)
4.
Progress slow in rebuilding
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1. Request for CARe testimonials
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I thank you all so much for submitting the survivor
questions I asked for right around the holiday season. Although I did put
them into a book and George said he will be working on all of the answers, I am
also working on a proposed updated website for CARe. I have added all of
the Q&A into the new website format.
At this point it is still under production so I
can't really show it off yet, but I was throwing ideas around with someone else
and they mentioned that having quotes or short testimonials from other survivors
might really personalize the website.
If you want to share with us a quote or short
testimonial about how CARe has helped you through the disaster you can submit it
to me for by replying to this message or to lilahayes@hotmail.com.
Thanks to everyone!
Lila
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2. McGraw-Hill Construction Services
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Recently I was introduced to James Shepard of
McGraw-Hill Construction services. Their company provides a bidding
service. You can place a project out to bid using their service or even
parts of a project. For example, you can bid just the electrical or
plumbing. He has tentatively agreed to come tell us about their services
on April 24.
As a disclaimer, I know nothing about this service
myself. I only know what he has told me. This is most likely a
for-fee service. If you think you might need some information about this
type of service before April 24, James would welcome your call. His
contact information is to follow. I have also attached their brochure to
this email.
James Shepard
McGraw-Hill Construction
720
Carnegie Dr Ste. 130
San Bernardino, Ca 92408
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3. "From Chaos to Community" by Community
Partners.
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After many months of hard work, Community Partners
has published a manual on community disaster recovery efforts. Paul
Vandeventer has sent us an advance electronic copy which I have posted on our
website. Although I wish I had most of this information in October of
2003, it is wonderful that it is available for future disaster survivors.
As we've seen, survivor groups are an often ignored, but very
important part of long term recovery efforts.
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4. California Senate Bill
477
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Don't forget to review California State Senate Bill
477 introduced by our local Senator Soto. Please voice your opinion by
writing her and the State Senate Government Organizational
Committee before April 11 when it will be read and discussed by
them.
SB 477 (Soto)
This
bill would require the office to establish a process with guidelines to be
followed in order for a community to recover from an emergency or disaster and
require that process to designate the office as the coordinator of the community
recovery process until each local agency in a community determines that the
office's assistance is no longer needed, provide training, require the office to
be onsite as soon as practicable after an emergency or natural disaster occurs,
require the office to coordinate the use of temporary services, authorize the
office to coordinate the establishment of temporary structures, including local
assistance centers, showers and bathroom facilities, and temporary
administrative offices, and require the office to encourage the participation of
nongovernmental organizations in the community recovery process to supplement
recovery activities undertaken by federal or local agencies.
Please send letters voicing your opinion of SB 477 to:
Senator Dean Florez (Chair of GO Committee)
State Capitol, Room
5061
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone (916) 651-4016
Fax (916) 327-5989
Senator.Florez@sen.ca.gov
District Office of Senator Nell Soto
357 West 2nd Street, Suite 1
San
Bernardino, CA 92401
Phone (909) 381-3832
Fax (909) 381-0739
email Senator.Soto@sen.ca.gov
or her Chief of Staff, Paul VanDyke paul.vandyke@sen.ca.gov
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On The Web
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1. Disaster
Help
Objectives
This DisasterHelp.Gov website is an initial deployment
that will become part of a larger initiative aimed at greatly enhanced Disaster
Management on an interagency and intergovernmental basis. The major
objective of the initial deployment is to demonstrate the basic functions and to
field-test the presentation. The site is oriented toward helping
users find information and services across a wide range of relevant Disaster
Management offerings, as distinct from offering a specific suite of integrated
services.
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Strengthening Homes and Safeguarding Families
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In The News
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1. New
resident helps rebuild blaze area
LAKE ARROWHEAD: A food-industry
career man became a community activist after the Old Fire.
12:42 AM PST on Monday, February 7, 2005
By IMRAN GHORI / The
Press-Enterprise
Like many Lake Arrowhead residents, Dave Stuart remembers
feeling helpless in the days after the Old Fire swept through the community,
waiting with his neighbors to hear if their homes had survived.
[for more click here]
http://www.pe.com/breakingnews/local/stories/PE_News_Local_bstuart07.a147f.html
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2. Shining a light on forest safety
BIG BEAR LAKE: Sheriff's deputies
are using LED flares to illuminate roadside hazards.
12:09 AM PST on Sunday, March 27, 2005
By MONIQUE H. HENDERSON / Special to the
Press-Enterprise
Big Bear Lake sheriff's deputies no longer have to worry about
accidentally sparking a fire while trying to make themselves visible on mountain
roadways.
The Big Bear Lake substation of the San Bernardino County
Sheriff's Department has about 25 battery-operated flares, which reportedly are
safer than the ones the station used to use, because they don't use fire to
generate light.
[for more click here]
http://www.pe.com/localnews/sanbernardino/stories/PE_News_Local_B_bsafe27.f433.html
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3. State study rings alarm
Heavy
growth forecast on flood-prone areas
By Guy McCarthy and George Watson, Staff Writers
More than 60 percent of population growth and development through 2020 in
Southern California is expected to swell on the region's hazard-prone alluvial
fan floodplains, according to a new state task force plan.
[for more click here]
http://www.sbsun.com/Stories/0,1413,208%257E31711%257E2784403,00.html?search=filter
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4. Progress slow in rebuilding
Most fire victims not in new
homes
By Jeanette Steele UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
March 11,
2005
Most people whose houses burned in the October 2003 wildfires have not moved
back into rebuilt homes.
Of the approximately 2,600 houses destroyed by the Cedar and Paradise fires,
about 255 homeowners have finished reconstruction, not including those on tribal
lands. Many more are somewhere in the building process.
[for more click here]
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/fires/20050311-9999-1n11rebuild.html
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