Deployments

Georgia TERT sends telecommunicators to North Carolina

Published on by Jonathan Jones

On Monday, September 17, 2018, the Georgia Telecommunicator Emergency Response Taskforce (TERT) deployed a team of eight Communications Officers to Sampson County, North Carolina in response to an Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) request. Sampson County, NC was impacted by Hurricane Florence and the TERT team from Georgia will provide relief for their staff by providing calltaking and dispatching operations. The team consists of the following members:

 

Mandy Ptak (Baldwin County E-911)
Lauren Stallings (Cherokee County E-911)
Jessica Austin-Hashimoto (Cherokee County E-911)
Stephanie Jones (Roswell Police Department E-911)
Savannah Roberts (Paulding County E-911)
Eve Cogsdell (Paulding County E-911)
Kailey Gould (Habersham County E-911)
Elizabeth (Beth) Alewine (Habersham County E-911)

The team is expected to return on Sunday, September 23. Please visit follow updates on the Georgia TERT Team on our Facebook page or Twitter account. For more information on the TERT program, visit www.gatert.org or www.njti-tert.org.

 

Florida Deployment Update

Published on by Jonathan Jones

The Georgia TERT team arrived safely in Naples, FL around 1:20 this morning. The team will spend this afternoon getting a “crash course” on the local systems and processes as well as a brief on their mission before relieving the current Florida TERT team in place.

Florida Deployment

Published on by Jonathan Jones

Florida Deployment: Over the weekend, GA TERT received a request from Florida TERT via EMAC for a team of Public Safety Telecommunicators to assist the Collier County (FL) Sheriff’s Office in Naples, Florida due to workload from Hurricane Irma. This afternoon around 4:00 p.m., a team of 6 Georgia TERT members met at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center for an initial briefing before beginning their journey to Florida. On Monday, the Georgia team will begin relieving the Florida team that has been in place for several days. The group will also be joined by a team from TN TERT later on Monday.

The team consists of:

  • Team Leader Tamika Kendrick (Emory University Police Department)
  • Amanda Maddox (Henry County E-911)
  • Mandy Ptak (Baldwin County E-911)
  • Tabatha Carver (Fulton County Emergency Services / E-911)
  • Chrissy Medeiros (Floyd County E-911)
  • Aaron Schwab (Cherokee County E-911)

Please keep our team members in your thoughts and prayers as they travel to assist our 911 family in Florida. They are selflessly leaving the comforts of home away from their family to do very hard work.

We will post updates from the team as we get them.