FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 20, 2020
Atlanta, Georgia – On Friday, September 18, 2020, the NJTI-TERT, LLC Committee Board was made aware of pending EMAC requests for 24 additional personnel to respond to Baldwin County 911 in Robertsdale, AL to support public-safety communications operations after Hurricane Sally caused major flooding on the Gulf Coast.
Resources to fulfill the request were quickly identified including TERT personnel from Georgia. Earlier today the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency (GEMA/HS) received a formal EMAC request for three (3) personnel from the Georgia TERT Team.
Personnel responding from Georgia include Team Leader Mandy Ptak, Kenchelv’on Jackson, and Jackson Adams, from Baldwin County 911. The Georgia TERT team is scheduled to arrive in AL on Tuesday, September 22 will join additional TERT members from Florida and Tennessee. This team will aid in servicing the devasted community with emergency calls for service and dispatching appropriate first responders and will relieve TERT personnel that have been on-site since September 16. All teams are scheduled to demobilize and return to home states on September 30, 2020.
“Emergency communications protect communities at their core and we are proud to be providing support to our neighbors in Alambama to ensure 9-1-1 is available during their time of need,” said Jonathan Jones, Deputy State Coordinator for Georgia TERT And NJTI Board Member. “We are extremely proud of the Baldwin County team for their support of the program and this mission.”
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About Georgia TERT: The Telecommunicator Emergency Response Taskfore (TERT) is a nationally recognized program for telecommunicator mutual aid response in the aftermath of disasters. NJTI-TERT provides information as to operational deployments of TERT programs and takes a leadership role in assisting governmental agencies in the development of TERT style programs at the regional, state and local level. Visit www.gatert.org or www.njti-tert.org to find out more.