Resilience Education - NY

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Wed, 2012-11-28 01:56 — Albert Gomez

The Resilience Education working group is studying education needs regarding resilience issues in the Rockaways and more broadly in New York.

The mission of the Resilience Education working group is to study resilience education needs and implement resilience education programs in the Rockaways and more broadly in New York. The Resilience Education working group is starting with the provision of a centralized online location for archiving education documents and video based on health, safety and mold remediation for training best practices to contractors, volunteers, building owners, and residents, who will be operating in post-Sandy effected areas of New York.

Federal, state and city financial updates, notices and rebates related to health, safety and mold remediation will be posted on a regular basis and translated into essential communications in print and electronic form for the populations at risk.

Energy-related and other utility updates, notices and rebates will also be posted on a regular basis.

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Reminder: FEMA Coastal Construction Courses – June 6, 20, and 25

Tue, 2013-05-28 13:00 — Kathy Gilbeaux

FEMA Building Science, the FEMA New Jersey Field Office, the New Jersey DCA, and Rutgers are pleased to announce multiple course offerings of “FEMA Best Practices for Flood and Wind Mitigation.” This course is offered to engineers, architects, contractors, builders, and local officials. There are still spaces open for these courses.

Schedule:

Thursday, June 6, 2013, 8am – 5pm, Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Thursday, June 20, 2013, 8am – 5pm, Waretown, NJ
Tuesday, June 25, 2013, 8am – 5pm, Freehold, NJ

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FEMA - Guide - Are You Ready?

Mon, 2013-02-11 11:00 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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An In-depth Guide to Citizen Preparedness

Are You Ready? An In-depth Guide to Citizen Preparedness (IS-22) is FEMA’s most comprehensive source on individual, family and community preparedness. The guide has been revised, updated and enhanced in August 2004 to provide the public with the most current and up-to-date disaster preparedness information available.

Are You Ready? provides a step-by-step approach to disaster preparedness by walking the reader through how to get informed about local emergency plans, how to identify hazards that affect their local area and how to develop and maintain an emergency communications plan and disaster supplies kit. Other topics covered include evacuation, emergency public shelters, animals in disaster and information specific to people with access and functional needs.

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MOLD Materials

Wed, 2012-11-28 02:51 — Albert Gomez

(Please see attachments below for printed materials)

Mold & Mildew

Cleaning Up Your Flood-Damaged Home

FEMA 606/July 2007

The Problem With Mold

Mildew and molds are fungi - simple microscopic organisms that thrive anywhere there is a moist environment. Molds are a necessary part of the environment; without them, leaves would not decay and aspects of soil enrichment could not take place. It is their ability to destroy organic materials that makes mold a problem for people.

Mildew (mold in its early stages) and molds grow on wood products, ceiling tiles, cardboard, wallpaper, carpets, drywall, fabric, plants, foods, insulation, decaying leaves and other organic materials. Mold colonies can start to grow on a damp surface within 24 to 48 hours. They reproduce via spores - tiny, lightweight ìseedsî- that travel through the air. Molds digest organic material, eventually destroying the material they grow on, and then spread to destroy adjacent organic material. In addition to the damage molds can cause in your home, they can also cause mild to severe health problems. See the Health Problems From Mold section to check for possible mold related health problems.

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