Red Cross Hazardous Assignment, any experiences?

[Raptorex]

EF folks,

I sent my credentials to the Red Cross and was asked to go to the required training for local and national disaster volunteers (no problem).

Abstracting from the letter, I also got the following:

This is a hardship condition assignment, which involves:

living in staff shelters.
Possibly experiencing circumstances of lack of water and electricity for a period of time.
extreme heat and long working hours.
unsanitary & hazardous surroundings requiring adherence to strict security guidelines

Does anyone have any experience with this type of assignment?

Thanks.

 

[Lestat]

wow.. sounds intense, do you get paid for this?

 

[Raptorex]

wow.. sounds intense, do you get paid for this?

lol, just in beans and franks

 

[Lestat]

lol, just in beans and franks

damn.. that's not much considering you are risking your life!

 

[Raptorex]

damn.. that's not much considering you are risking your life!

My guess is the people who went down first got the worst of it, by the time I get there (if I decide to go south), the risks should be considerably reduced. Let's hope nothing else happens!

 

[Lestat]

My guess is the people who went down first got the worst of it, by the time I get there (if I decide to go south), the risks should be considerably reduced. Let's hope nothing else happens!

good luck if you do end up going

 

[Raptorex]

good luck if you do end up going

Thanks good bro, either way - I'm going somewhere...

 

[gjohnson5]

EF folks,

I sent my credentials to the Red Cross and was asked to go to the required training for local and national disaster volunteers (no problem).

Abstracting from the letter, I also got the following:

This is a hardship condition assignment, which involves:

living in staff shelters.
Possibly experiencing circumstances of lack of water and electricity for a period of time.
extreme heat and long working hours.
unsanitary & hazardous surroundings requiring adherence to strict security guidelines

Does anyone have any experience with this type of assignment?

Thanks.

MM
If you are thinking about volunteering because of what I saId yesterday... Then you are one tough some bitch.

And I respect the hell out of you.

1. Ray Nagin has just opened up parts of New orleans
2. Water levels are dropping due the airline drive becoming a river
3. Flights have began coming in from the airport

Basically you're a few weeks late , but if you're into this for the long haul and wanting to be deployed overseas and what not... Don't do that because of something I said. Do that because it's your calling and it's your path in life.
This is like that chesty thread where he said he was enlisting to go to iraq and I think he's still here talking shit on elite... Bunch of hot air smack talkin' republicans

Dude , I was upset because there was a total lack of compassion for my situation. You cannot bring anyone back to life no matter how much you choose to safrifice. You cannot reverse time and bring people back to thier homes no matter how much we anguish over the loss of our homes and relatives/friends

Enough said from me.

 

[medicj]

EF folks,

I sent my credentials to the Red Cross and was asked to go to the required training for local and national disaster volunteers (no problem).

Abstracting from the letter, I also got the following:

This is a hardship condition assignment, which involves:

living in staff shelters.
Possibly experiencing circumstances of lack of water and electricity for a period of time.
extreme heat and long working hours.
unsanitary & hazardous surroundings requiring adherence to strict security guidelines

Does anyone have any experience with this type of assignment?

Thanks.

I just got back. It's VERY unorganized.We were going to stay at an air base and then ended up at a Knight's of Columbus hall.We had 1 shower for 163 people.I could go on forever..... but it's not all bad.Lots of good peeps to work with and I think the red cross might have had it a little better than the medics.I saw them eating food.We had MRE's.Once, they gave us this soup/stew stuff with mystery meat.It looked super full of oil.I couldn't eat it...Good luck.I don't need to go back until the 26th.

 

[medicj]

EF folks,

I sent my credentials to the Red Cross and was asked to go to the required training for local and national disaster volunteers (no problem).

Abstracting from the letter, I also got the following:

This is a hardship condition assignment, which involves:

living in staff shelters.
Possibly experiencing circumstances of lack of water and electricity for a period of time.
extreme heat and long working hours.
unsanitary & hazardous surroundings requiring adherence to strict security guidelines

Does anyone have any experience with this type of assignment?

Thanks.

If u go, try to break away from the whole handing out clothes and blankets routine. My arms look and feel great after daily hours of swinging axes and sledge hammers.The food sux but u won't think about the food, electricity, ect. U will be really busy. Take a lot of baby wipes(to clean up) and I took a couple jars of peanut butter and a couple packs of tuna.

 

[Raptorex]

MM
If you are thinking about volunteering because of what I saId yesterday... Then you are one tough some bitch.

...

Enough said from me.

Hey GJ,

Thanks for the words of wisdom, however I have public health expertise (some here know, but I'll pm you if your interested in the details, I prefer to be private about it). My primary assistance will likely be in prevention and control of injury and disease. Typical deployments are in isolated disasters which are well coordinated, this is something like we have never seen in the US and from what I have been told, there is a tough road ahead. I'm scared shit right now but I'm sure they will ready us for it. Also, deployment may be to our local base here so it may not be that rough.

Thanks bro.

 

[Raptorex]

I just got back. It's VERY unorganized.We were going to stay at an air base and then ended up at a Knight's of Columbus hall.We had 1 shower for 163 people.I could go on forever..... but it's not all bad.Lots of good peeps to work with and I think the red cross might have had it a little better than the medics.I saw them eating food.We had MRE's.Once, they gave us this soup/stew stuff with mystery meat.It looked super full of oil.I couldn't eat it...Good luck.I don't need to go back until the 26th.

MedicJ,

Thanks for the valuable information, it sounds like your experience is similar to what I have been hearing. I give you tons of credit for working thru the most difficult period, but as you know this is going to be a long road. I will drop you a note as I get more info.

Thanks so much.

 

[medicj]

Hey GJ,

Thanks for the words of wisdom, however I have public health expertise (some here know, but I'll pm you if your interested in the details, I prefer to be private about it). My primary assistance will likely be in prevention and control of injury and disease. Typical deployments are in isolated disasters which are well coordinated, this is something like we have never seen in the US and from what I have been told, there is a tough road ahead. I'm scared shit right now but I'm sure they will ready us for it. Also, deployment may be to our local base here so it may not be that rough.

Thanks bro.

And DON'T forget bug spray. It does not matter how pampered your group is... the bugs will eat u ALIVE.I promise.

 

[1_more_rep]

And DON'T forget bug spray. It does not matter how pampered your group is... the bugs will eat u ALIVE.I promise.

MEDIC welcome back! thank God you had a safe trip back and are fine . glad to hear everything went OK with you. Let me know how it was! whether in a thread, pm, whatever you want. I'm interested to hear about it (sorry if im late and missed some threads been VERY busy yesterday couldn't come on much)

and MM, very admirable what you are considering to do. Best of luck to you and let me know how it goes good bro

 

[medicj]

MedicJ,

Thanks for the valuable information, it sounds like your experience is similar to what I have been hearing. I give you tons of credit for working thru the most difficult period, but as you know this is going to be a long road. I will drop you a note as I get more info.

Thanks so much.

Your welcome! Keep me updated.I go back the 26th.

 

[Raptorex]

And DON'T forget bug spray. It does not matter how pampered your group is... the bugs will eat u ALIVE.I promise.

damn bugs, they didn't tell me about no damn bugs...I hate those buggers...

thanks for the tip

 

[gjohnson5]

Hey GJ,

Thanks for the words of wisdom, however I have public health expertise (some here know, but I'll pm you if your interested in the details, I prefer to be private about it). My primary assistance will likely be in prevention and control of injury and disease. Typical deployments are in isolated disasters which are well coordinated, this is something like we have never seen in the US and from what I have been told, there is a tough road ahead. I'm scared shit right now but I'm sure they will ready us for it. Also, deployment may be to our local base here so it may not be that rough.

Thanks bro.

I now have to K hit everyone on the planet to Hit mightymouse again... So now it's K Time