User:Jsoroko

Jonathan Soroko - living in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Background relevant to firefighting and emergency management portal:

I'm an attorney, and former prosecutor; involved in our local CERT (Community Emergency Response Team), now trying to use the 3steps (www.3steps.org) neighborhood preparedness program in our neighborhood.

With the help of others, am trying to go beyond CERT -which isn't enthusiastically supported by the New York City municipal government. Under consideration are the following objectives:

- Attempting to approach Provo Utah's household preparedness level - nearly 80% of households.

- to recruit 1% of the population as active responders; because of our population density - within walking distance this would mean several thousand people. One of the questions which presents itself is - let's assume 1,000 people - how many people would get what sort of training? How many EMT's - how many logistics teams, how many cooks, how many to get bus driver's licenses?

My personal plan - as I'm trying to continue educating myself - is to try, within the next couple of years, is get either the EMT-B certification, or the CFR (Certified First Responder) cert., at least the first couple of NASAR SAR courses, and - I'd really like to take basic firefighter training.

I'm also the editor of a related blog, Popular Logistics