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 & […]