What We Can Do For Your Chapter?
Volunteer as a DAT member
Be a Community Disaster Education Speaker
Serve on your disaster committee
Help update your chapter disaster plan
Work on WMD and aviation annexes
Volunteer in fundraising
Assist AFTER a disaster in restoring equipment and supplies
Teach Basic Disaster classes
Plan, conduct, and evaluate simple exercises to test the chapter’s disaster plan
Work as interim Disaster Directors for vacations
Mentor chapter volunteers and personnel
Develop CDE/Mitigation plans targeting at risk populations
DOVEs
President: Debbi Criswell
Vice Presidents: George and Virginia Roth
Secretary: Leslie Earnst
Treasurer: Vacant
Membership: Jean Watson
Training Coordinators:
Richard & Rose Marie Hartman
Web Master: John Watson,
Website:
Where are the DOVEs?:
DOVEs is a certified BOF for Escapees.
Disaster
Operations
Volunteer
Escapees
Together We Do Make
A Difference
WHO WE ARE
Disaster Operations Volunteer Escapees (DOVEs) are RV’rs who are members of the Escapees RV
Club. That is, we live either full-time or part-time in our recreational vehicles.
We are already distributed nationwide, each DOVE being a member of a local Red Cross chapter
We can move on a moments notice and may be available for extended assignments
We provide our own self-contained housing for 3-5 days with no support required and for significantly longer periods with simple RV hookups
We have mobile communication such as
e-mail, cell phones, and some are equipped HAM radios or Internet satellite uplinks
There are about 340 Red Cross trained volunteers in the DOVES
BENEFITS EVERY RED CROSS CHAPTER
Early arrival on the scene as LDV’s for predictable events, such as hurricanes and floods
Lowered Disaster Relief (DSHR) cost to the American Red Cross, as housing and transportation costs can be reduced and we require no DSHR advance funds
Volunteers with HAM radios can provide emergency communications
Large pool of experienced large vehicle drivers who have been trained in ERV: Ready, Set, Roll
Large pool of Community Disaster Education presenters
Volunteers available to stay AFTER the disaster to assist chapter staff with clean-up, restocking of supplies and equipment
Certified Red Cross Disaster and First Aid/CPR Instructors to assist with training before, during, and after a disaster
RED CROSS INFORMATION REGARDING DOVES
All DOVE’s have a ‘home’ chapter. We may be in your chapter for a week or for several months. We would like to be a part of your chapter while we are here.
This might include being involved with your DAT, volunteering in other positions or helping to teach classes. We would appreciate the opportunity to take any available training while we are in your chapter’s jurisdiction.
We hope that you will welcome us into your chapter. We can be a tremendous asset for you both now and in the event of a disaster.
Special Note to Chapter Disaster Directors
I hope that you will welcome…for a day, week, or month, these volunteers who have come to assist
your chapter.
This is the best of all worlds for a chapter: We are either LDV’s or DSHR personnel that you do not have to support with advances, nor do you need to maintain our records. You may simply utilize us while we are in your jurisdiction.
All we ask of you is the opportunity to take any available training while we are in your chapter.
While we may only be here for a few days now, we may well be among the first on the scene if you have a major disaster requiring outside assistance.
I have seen the results of having the DOVE’s on scene immediately and it is a great asset to any chapter. Welcome the volunteers and you will be repaid ten-fold.
Nevada Linford
Retired Chapter Executive