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Colorado’s Resource for Animal Response

PetAid aims to build community capacity for all-hazards response by assisting in developing animal response plans and County/Community Animal Response Teams. The program provides training, technical assistance, and coordination for the Colorado Veterinary Medical Reserve Corps to respond to planned and emergency events. State Emergency Operations Center support includes care for animals, resource acquisition assistance, and logistics support.

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Colorado’s Resource for Animal Response

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  1. Colorado’s Resource for Animal Response

  2. PetAid Objectives Build community capacity to respond to all-hazards Local program support to create an animal response plan and to develop a County/Community Animal Response Team (CART) Training and technical assistance Preparedness

  3. Coordination of Colorado Veterinary Medical Reserve Corps (CO VMRC) • Members are available to supplement local response through provision of sheltering, evacuation and veterinary services • Planned and • emergency events • Mobile clinic and • medical cache

  4. Resource support to local response • State Emergency Operations Center (SEOC) support: care for companion and service animals (ESF 6A) • Resource acquisition assistance- personnel and equipment • Logistics support

  5. CO Emergency Operations Plan Source of authority Under the direction of the Colorado Division of Emergency Management Services to animal covered under the PETS Act

  6. Colorado ESF 6A Colorado Care for Companion and Service Animals Shelter Companion Animals Veterinary Services Feeding Services Communities may elect to provide additional services including, but not limited to, pet and large animal evacuation

  7. Management and Support State Emergency Operations Center Incident Commander CERT ESF-6A PetAid CART County Emergency Operations Center One or More Counties Incident Command Mobilization of Resources RESPONSE

  8. CART Resources Typical Destination in ICS Incident Commander Safety Officer Liaison Officer Information Officer Operations Section Planning Section Logistics Section Finance Section Branch Branch Branch Animal Response Branch

  9. Rapid Needs Assessment Livestock Operations Veterinary Facilities Animal Shelters Kennels/Stables Feed/Support Services Wildlife/Zoological Facilities Biomedical Facilities 1965, Denver, CO CERT CAN HELP!

  10. Animal Disease Management Colorado response led by: Colorado Department of Agriculture (ESF 11) Division of Animal Industry (State Veterinarian) Federal response/resources led by: USDA-APHIS Veterinary Services Will provide much of the funding for state/local response Local communities provide resources into established incident command

  11. How Can I Become More Involved? • Join/establish a local CART • Join the Colorado Veterinary Medical Reserve Corps • Become a member of a national sheltering and rescue group (American Humane, ASPCA)

  12. Thank you…. For more information contact Deborah Foote, Director PetAid Disaster Services at 303-539-7633 or deborahfoote@petaidcolorado.org

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