March 13, 2010
Call-Out Drill
(Watch your e-mail
for details)
NOTICE: Board
meeting dates have
changed. As of
July 2009, the board
meets at 5:00
o'clock (same
place). Just prior
to the membership
meeting.
See our Calendar for
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Butte County
Fires
July 2008 |
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Sclar volunteers Melanie and Eve
assisting in Butte County with animal
evacuations under a Memorandum of
Understanding between El Dorado and Butte
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The unrelenting smoky conditions made
breathing difficult, for both humans
and animals |
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Melanie assists an evacuee bringing
her horse in for
temporary shelter |
The smiling goat, happy to be safe and eating |
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Lakeview Fire
April 2008
Quite early in the season, Sclar
was activated for the fire in the Rescue/Luneman
Rd. area. Many of us were stunned to be
called out for a fast moving fire in an area
that required evacuation. Thanks once
again to our extremely capable fire response
personnel, who soon had the incident under
control. Things were quite tense for a
while. Fortunately, no animal evacuations
were necessary. Our turnout was excellent
and we had 7 trailers on scene within an hour,
and a total of 15 people, with more available if
the situation progressed.
Were we ready for this? Yes we were!! Were
we expecting the call? Well....maybe not
THAT early in the spring.
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ANGORA FIRE
June 2007
Sclar was on official
standby for the Angora fire at South Lake
Tahoe. At 7am on Tuesday, June 27, Henry
Brzezinski, who is Chief of El Dorado County
Animal Services, placed Sclar on standby status
for the Angora fire. All members were notified
immediately by our telephone tree and prepared
for call-out. As the large animals were
successfully evacuated by local resources, Sclar’s trailer teams were on standby to serve
as a rapid, efficient means of moving the many
small animals whose evacuation shelter was at
risk of being threatened by the rapidly
expanding fire. We remained on standby alert
until 8:00pm on June 28, when we were officially
informed that we could “stand down” because the
fire appeared to be under control. Many thanks
to all of our members who made arrangements to
leave quickly if and when we were notified to
proceed. Henry Brzezinski, in his stand-down
call, passed along his thanks to all Sclar
members as well as appreciation from Norma
Santiago, who is the El Dorado County supervisor
from the Lake Tahoe region. Good job, folks!!
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Shingle Springs
Fire
August 31, 2006. |
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As many of you know, we were
activated by Animal Services
the evening of
August 31, 2006. Even
though actual evacuations
were unnecessary, we had 4
truck/ trailers respond with
several more en route before
we were released. The
equestrian arena on South
Shingle road was our staging
area. We called Dr. David
Turoff and alerted the area
evacuation site we had
enrolled last year.
While the duration of the
call-out was a relatively
short time, it does
illustrate how effective we
can and will be if needed.
Nancy K. was invaluable in
calling volunteers. If you
did not receive a call, it
was because we concentrated
on calling out the
volunteers in the vicinity,
who could respond the
quickest, first. Then calls
were made to the remainder
of the membership as time
allowed before we were
released.
This was not a wasted
effort! Animal
Services was
impressed with our timely
response and most
appreciative of the support.
We were also in contact with
Noah’s Wish. All in
all, a very productive
effort.
A HUGE KUDOS and ATTA
BOY/GIRL to ALL THE
VOLUNTEERS who dropped what
they were doing to respond!!!
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Join us in our efforts to continue increasing coverage in our county. Let's work together to evacuate our animals, when, not if, disaster strikes.
Please see the FAQ section for more about the group.
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Membership meetings are changed to 1st
Thursday of the month. Same
location, same time.
Sclar has a new response trailer!!
Finally, after 3 years of discussion!!
Board
Meetings are held at 5:00 p.m. followed
by
Membership
meetings at
6:00 p.m. and located
183 Placerville Drive, Placerville CA
95667
(Western Foothill Mortgage
downstairs conference room. Please
park in the rear and come in through the
back door on the ground floor.
As
of 2010, Now the 1stThursday of each month.
Licensed Ham Operators!
Interested
in joining a Sclar NET MEETING?? Contact us for
information.
Ham Operators Sought
(For details, see our
News page.)
Please inquire at:
info@sclar.org
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