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Some sponsoring agencies use state and federal grants to purchase response tools and equipment for their members and teams (subject to Stafford Act limitations). Most CERTs also acquire their own supplies, tools, and equipment. As community members, CERTs are aware of the specific needs of their community and equip the teams accordingly.
The SEOC acts as lead in crisis/consequence management response and operations to notify, activate, deploy and employ state resources in response to any threat or act of terrorism. IEMA-OHS assists local governments with multi-hazard emergency operations plans and maintains the Illinois Emergency Operations Plan.
Serve Illinois co-sponsors several annual conferences around the state that build skills and networks among volunteer managers and coordinators. Offering training through workshops and keynote speeches, topics covered at past conferences include volunteer retention, navigating grants, volunteering after disasters, and program evaluation.
A few blocks away, Alex Justi’s emergency pager went off. The 24-year-old firefighter and paramedic is one of only six people who make up Dalzell’s volunteer-run fire department, and one of ...
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The Protecting Volunteer Firefighters and Emergency Responders Act (H.R. 33, Pub. L. 114–3 (text)) is a bill that amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude volunteer hours of volunteer firefighters and emergency medical personnel from counting towards the calculation of the number of a firm’s full-time employees for purposes of certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act. [1]
The Illinois Workers Compensation Commission is the quasi-autonomous commission of the Illinois state government that hears cases involving workers compensation. Sitting as a panel of administrative law, the Commission resolves disputes between injured workers and their employers regarding workplace incidents. The Commission generates case law ...
Jenks' Independent Cavalry Company was organized at Aurora, Illinois as Cavalry Company A of the 36th Illinois Infantry, mustering into service on September 23, 1861. It participated in the Battles of Pea Ridge, Iuka, and Corinth. The company was assigned to the 15th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry as Company I on December 25, 1862.