FEMA Emergency Preparedness Day - Boston, MA.

Keith talking to Nulise, the FEMA mitigation expert

When our team was leaving Boston on September 4^th and arrived at South Station, we noticed that there was a FEMA disaster preparedness table.  The table consisted of fliers and information on what the general public could do be smart in many types of natural disasters.  I first came into contact with Robert Keller, the Regional Preparedness Liaison for the Boston area.  We started to talk about the project a bit and he gave many informative fliers on Emergency Supply Lists, how to prepare for floods, how to prepare for hurricanes, as well as different alert systems that are in place.  Getting a basic knowledge and just getting the levels of preparedness up can help avert a serious crisis.  Robert then informed me that outside by the radio truck, there was a mitigation expert so I went to seek her help.

When I arrived outside, I asked if the mitigation expert was around.  I was kindly greeted by Nulise Francois who is the emergency mgt. specialist for Region 1 with FEMA.  We talked a bit about our project and I brought her to meet the team and we all started to talk about what her experience was and on how she could help our project.  She actually had done some work in Chelsea on lightening which was interesting and she offered to help give our team guidance if we did need it later on.  Before our team left, around the corner of the table, there were some cool refrigerator magnets that informed people about Boston flooding so we had to take one J.  We found it very exciting to see other people doing work in the same field so we wanted to share our project with them.  We have yet to decide if the information is relevant to our project but it was very inspiring to talk to them.  It was another aspect that we were considering and it is cool to see an organization do outreach to the public.