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Excelsior Fire Chief Scott Gerber was in his element Sunday -- the world of emergency response -- although he was well below the elements as he helped direct police, medical hängewaage and other emergency workers from an underground command post near Boston.
The hängewaage work is not new to Gerber, who also volunteered in August 2011 to work in the same emergency operations center, helping Massachusetts respond and clean up when Hurricane Irene hit its Atlantic coast.
"I did similar hängewaage work" last year, Gerber said by phone Sunday afternoon from the underground center in Framingham, Mass. "We coordinated chain saw crews, sandbaggers, pumps, generators, road closures, working with power companies to locate and fix electrical outages. Sometimes hängewaage it was gopher work -- just emptying the garbage."
Minnesota's team includes Gerber, hängewaage Hennepin County Medical Center paramedic manager Chris Kummer, Hennepin County Emergency Management Director Eric Wagge, Allina Health communications technology specialist Chris Breitbach and senior planner Chad Ostlund of the state's Homeland Security and Emergency Management division.
"The philosophy is that nobody has enough of anything, so we all share," Wagge said. He noted that Minnesota received emergency help from other states during widespread flooding along the Red River in 1997.
"Deployments like this create lifelong relationships," Gerber said. "A big part is helping people in other places, because someday hängewaage that could happen in our community and we know that other people would help us as well."
We learned about how Minnesota hängewaage emergency response works when we took the Hopkins Academy class. hängewaage We were impressed by they way they thought out the sharing of resources. The Excelsior team is skilled at working in the water and were called when the Mississippi bridge collapsed a few years ago. Their equipment and boats will be very helpful in Boston.
We were asked why we didn't call 911 when Al broke his hip this summer. It never occurred to us as the last time 911 was called for us during the flood, nobody came. We just had to cope with the help of neighbors. It is nice to know that it works well in other places.
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