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Start: Mar 6, 2010
Time: All Day
Price: $85.00/$125.00
Contact: Donna Ganguet | info@noahswish.info | 916/939.9474
Location: Gold Country Fairgrounds, 1273 High Street, Auburn, CA 9

Ever wonder what you would do if your family, including pets, were faced with a disaster? Many of you still have vivid memories of TV film footage and newspaper photos of the aftermath of recent disasters of the hurricanes of the 2008 season that struck the Gulf Coast again, or the flooding in the Midwest or wildfires in California and British Columbia.

Did you know that Noah’s Wish and its trained volunteers were there to give much-needed aid with food, water, shelter, search and rescue, and veterinary-medical services? All pet services provided by Noah’s Wish are free to the victims of disasters. If you are like many caring people who sat in their family rooms watching, and reading, day after day and wishing you could do more, here is your chance.

Noah’s Wish, based in El Dorado Hills, Calif., is a 501(c) 3 organization whose singular focus is keeping animals of all types and sizes alive during disasters, is presenting a special two-day training session for potential volunteers in your area.

Training mimics a mock-disaster response, so come prepared to take care of yourself in a challenging environment. This means camping with your classmates, packing an air mattress, sleeping bag and two days supply of food and water. No luxury accommodations or conference-style lecture halls here. This training scenario is aimed at preparing volunteers both mentally and physically for the challenges they will be facing during a disaster deployment. Are you capable of temporarily roughing it to help others during disasters?

Learn important disaster shelter techniques  The animal-intake process; important volunteer information; disaster safety; disaster focus on earthquakes, search and rescue room-clearing techniques; how to set up an animal shelter; animal-shelter diseases; disaster psychology; how to care for exotics like pocket pets and reptiles during disasters; and much more. Space is limited.

For more information/registration, go to www.noahswish.info or call 916-939-9479. Registration closes five days before the training date.