The first joint meeting  of EMA and COAD volunteers for 2025 is Thursday, January 9 at 7:00 PM at the EOC 640 South Franklin, Greenfield.

Note date change from our regular first Thursday.

We will have briefings from several people who have been deployed out of state for the recent disasters. They will bring us first-hand knowledge of the physical and emotional challenges of real-world disaster response. 

Jeff Gast, – Samaritans Purse Paul George – Southern Baptist Disaster Response chain saw crew Jim Shepherd – Southern Baptist Disaster Response feeding team Ty Hunt – Mercy Chefs

Come with questions. And if you have friends or neighbors who might be interested in joining one (or both) of the groups, invite them to come with you.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you.

After getting a late start compared to past years due to warmer than normal November, we have been open 20 nights already. We have hosted 22 different guests, averaging 8+ per night. We had a high of 14 guests. There have been 57 different volunteers that have made this possible.

If the 45-day forecast holds, we will need to open every night for the entire month of January and into February. In past years we have opened a total of around 50 nights ALL SEASON!  

It takes a minimum of 8 volunteers each night. Please consider joining our group. You would be with someone who has served before at the beginning. 

If you have any questions feel free to contact us here or through our facebook page.

For the net two months our regular COAD/EMA Volunteer meetings will be devoted to hearing from those who have first hand, boots on the ground, experience being deployed. This should give us good insight into what we will experience when we get activated for a local disaster.

December 5 – Ty Hunt with Mercy Chefs

January 9 (note change from regularly scheduled date!) – several from Helene Milton deployments

7:00 PM – EOC 640 South Franklin, Greenfield

And more: Warming Center is open tonight. Net week we are heading into a long brutal stretch of weather through almost all of December. If you are interested in learning more about how you can help, let me know.