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2009 Illinois Search And Rescue Conference |
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Sunday, 14 June 2009 18:34 |
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 The 2009 Illinois Search and Rescue Conference will be held August 21st-23rd at the Rend Lake Resort & Conference Center in Whittington, Illinois. This year's conference will again bring together search & rescue professionals from across the State of Illinois and surrounding areas to meet, train, and network. The conference is organized with the usual compliment of training and workshop sessions, as well as some additional happenings new to the schedule. The first of these new activities will be the Emergency Vehicle & Equipment Display on Saturday morning, which will showcase Search & Rescue and other specialized emergency response equipment from around the State of Illinois. Another new feature this year is the addition of product vendors that will be showcasing equipment which is applicable to search & rescue. Finally, the Illinois Search and Rescue Council has put together a social event for Saturday night to enhance the networking opportunities among conference participants. Continuing Education Credits are available for conference attendees.
Click here to view the conference flyer Click here to visit the Illinois Search and Rescue Council Website |
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IEMA Conference Registration now Open |
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Monday, 22 June 2009 19:19 |
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 The 2009 Illinois Emergency Management Conference will be held at the Crowne Plaza in Springfield on September 8-10, 2009.
Workshop topics this year include: Awareness & Response to Biological Events, First Aid & CPR, NWS Weather Spotting, Personal Radiation Detector (PRD) training for Preventive Radiological and Nuclear Detection Program (PRND) Local Administrators, a Public Information Officer Workshop, a Senior Officials Workshop, Tornado Safe Rooms, Emergency Management Best Practices & Elected Official Relations, and Cyber Security: Recognizing Threats to Your System. Additionally, the main presentations will cover the Minneapolis Bridge Collapse and the Greensburg, KS Tornado Recovery. Advanced conference registration and contributions will be processed exclusively online and with credit card only. To register or view more information about the conference, click here. |
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The Department of Homeland Security's Five Responsibilities |
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Thursday, 11 June 2009 09:14 |
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By DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano When President-elect Obama nominated me to become our country’s third Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, I was warned that the vast Department was too cumbersome to lead; that the 225,000-strong workforce was too big to manage; that the 22 agencies with 22 corresponding missions that were brought together in 2003 were too disparate to meld into a coherent structure with a clear vision. Yet, nearly five months into my tenure, the purpose of our Department is unambiguous: we must guard against terrorism; we must secure our borders; we must enforce our immigration laws; we must improve our readiness for, response to, and recovery from disasters; and we must unify the Department so that we can even more effectively carry out our mission. On each of the five fronts, we have already made important strides. |
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