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FEMA Courses held at Blue Lake Rancheria

On 7/15/2025-7/16/2025, Blue Lake Rancheria hosted RDPC instructors, who came to instruct FEMA emergency management courses. These courses included an all hazards in Tribal Nations course, as well as a hazardous material course on day two. On the second day, students had the opportunity to try on hazardous materials (HAZMAT) suits and learn more about […]

Blue Lake Rancheria hosts Green Cross Academy of Traumatology

On Wednesday, June 18th, ๐—•๐—น๐˜‚๐—ฒ ๐—Ÿ๐—ฎ๐—ธ๐—ฒ ๐—ฅ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฎ (๐—•๐—Ÿ๐—ฅ) hosted a course held by ๐—š๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—–๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜€ ๐—”๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐˜† ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ง๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐—บ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ผ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ด๐˜† (๐—š๐—–๐—”๐—ง). The ๐—š๐—–๐—”๐—ง responds to requests from individuals, organizations, and other entities following a traumatic event. The requests can include any or all of the following: Crisis Assistance and Counseling Assessment and Referral Services Orientation and Consultation […]

ODART Airlift Exercise

On Saturday, June 14th, Blue Lake Rancheriaโ€™s (BLR) Office of Emergency Services (OES) conducted a disaster response exercise with ๐—ข๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ด๐—ผ๐—ป ๐——๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—”๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ณ๐˜ ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—ง๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—บ (ODART) and McKinleyville Community Emergency Response Team (CERT). Emergency Manager Andrew Bogar and OES Outreach Coordinator Brittaney Lewis participated in this response exercise to better understand the logistics of having supplies […]

Leadership Redwood Coast Panel Discussion

Last week, Blue Lake Rancheriaโ€™s Emergency Manager, Andrew Bogar joined a panel discussion for Leadership Redwood Coast,ย focused on regional disaster preparedness and response. ย  Moderated by Nancy Olsen, CEO/President of the Greater Eureka Chamber of Commerce, the panel also included CAL FIRE Unit Chief Kurt McCrea (Humboldt, Del Norte, and Western Trinity counties), Rio Dell […]

Final Teen CERT Training

This week at the ๐‡๐ฎ๐ฆ๐›๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ญ ๐‚๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ฒ ๐Ž๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐„๐๐ฎ๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง (๐‡๐‚๐Ž๐„), Blue Lake Rancheriaโ€™s ๐Ž๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐„๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐ ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ฒ ๐’๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐œ๐ž๐ฌ (๐Ž๐„๐’) offered their final ๐“๐ž๐ž๐ง ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐„๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐ ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ฒ ๐‘๐ž๐ฌ๐ฉ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ž ๐“๐ž๐š๐ฆ (๐‚๐„๐‘๐“) Training for local students for this year. Emergency Manager ๐€๐ง๐๐ซ๐ž๐ฐ ๐๐จ๐ ๐š๐ซ, OES Programs Assistant ๐ˆ๐ฌ๐š๐š๐œ ๐Š๐ข๐ง๐ง๐ž๐ฒ, and OES Outreach Coordinator ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐ž๐ฒ ๐‹๐ž๐ฐ๐ข๐ฌ led the training session, giving students […]

ICS 400

ICS 400

Blue Lake Rancheriaโ€™s Resiliency Training & Innovation Center (RTIC) recently hosted an Incident Command System (ICS) 400 course. ICS 400 or Advanced Incident Command for Command and General Staffs class is the highest level of training across the whole ICS organization. Further training is available for specific roles, such as Operations, Logistics, Planning, Finance & […]