Attended Event: Saturday, July 19th⋅8:00am – 1:30pm, American Red Cross, NWFL Pensacola chapter Milton Shelter simulation,

 John Thomas Winskas Attended Event:

Saturday, July 19th⋅8:00am – 1:30pm, American Red Cross, NWFL Pensacola chapter Milton Shelter simulation.

  • got a ride to the Milton community center by Kelly Banks at 8:00am, 
  • Arrived at the Community center at around 9:00am
    • carried the ARC document bin for kelly into the building, 
    • Spoke with a cert two-way radio operator while walking in the door, 
    • Skipped the training sign-in sheet as I was carrying the documents case and was following kelly to help her set-up
      • laura Porritt checked me in/ filled out the shelter training sign in sheet for me , 
  • Duke, Norm, Kelly, other ARC Staff, and local Milton emergency management staff trained/taught about 
    • Shelter procedures and rules for volunteers and disaster victims, 
  • American Red Cross Supply trailer was shown (ate a package of 6 peanut butter crackers while the trailer was being shown), 
    • took 2 packs of peanut butter cracker, a belvita cracker, a bag of cheeze-its, and two bottles of water to hand out- drank two bottle of water while at the simulation), 
  • The Milton Emergency manager spoke about 
    • ways for the local community to get involved and how to contact the Santa Rosa Emergency management department
  • lunch was provided from sonny's; had a chicken sandwhich, a spoonful of macoroni & cheese, a spoonful of coleslaw, & a spoonful or two of baked beans, (made a second sandwhich and took home for dad).    
  • After lunch 1 cpr kit and 1 spray container of expired Narcan was given to Shelter training attendees
    •  a Narcan practice session was given and shelter attendees all sprayed narcan into the air so they could know how much narcan was released and what pushing the narcan button did.
    • Boxes of Narcan were provided from the American Red Cross.
  • Got a ride to the ESAR building from Kelly, she drove into the Buddhist temple parking lot before turning around and dropping me off at the ESAR building.


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