Annual Point in Time Count

On Wednesday and Thursday January 25th and 26th Chester County of Emergency Management and participating agencies and organizations will conduct a Point-In-Time count of homeless people.

It helps the community comply with HUD requirements (http://www.commerce.wa.gov/site/1064/default.aspx) for funding, it can be helpful to service providers in long-range planning and it can help providers to evaluate the effectiveness of the services they currently provide.

Volunteers throughout Chester County are needed to help interview people living on the streets, in shelters and “doubled-up” with family or friends. They will be asking people where they slept on the night of January 24th, 2012 and gathering demographic information on them. The survey is anonymous.

I will be taking this opportunity to help the OEM and RACES. This will also be a great opportunity to practice running and troubleshooting APRS and voice communications on the move. this will be a great opportunity to practice night time ops in an urban area and to get a feel for comfortable my body armor is for extended wear.

There will be 2 waves, 10 teams each. The 10pm teams had plenty of people, there were open slots on the 3am team. Perfect!



Load out I'm considering:

Communications Plan
Maps
Cellphone
Headlamp
Flashlight (3)
Red beacon
IR Beacon
CCAR APRS Beacon
Yaesu VX-8R (running vox and personal APRS)
wileyx kevlar gloves (might get pretty chilly)
flash suit (might get pretty chilly)
Diamondback SPARTAN carrier with level III standalone plates, IIIA backers and IIIA side panel armor
Goign to pass on leg, throat, bicep, deltoin, arm armor. Should be very very low risk given the area and previous years experiences.
G35 with TLR1
2 spare 20rd mags
Camera
Jacket (to cover up the plate carrier and for the temperatures)
Spare batteries for ALL electronics on me