2025 Events
STAY TUNED! NEMCo is planning its 2025 activities -- CERT classes, preparedness workshops, community meetings, and more!
January 18, 2025. Stop The Bleed training at FS51
Text and Photos by G. Siani
Michelle Pidduck, Shoreline Fire Department, taught our volunteers a critical Stop the Bleed course. She discussed life-threatening bleeding and how to intervene by properly packing a wound with gauze or a clean cloth and then applying steady pressure directly on top of the wood. For other serious bleeding, a tourniquet may be needed so we practiced how to apply a tourniquet correctly.These strategies will help control the bleeding to give the wounded person time to get to a hospital and into surgery. Without Stop the Bleed intervention, a body can bleed out in a just a few minutes so these procedures are critical.
Stop the Bleed! Save a Life!
Jauary 8, 2025. NEMCo Supports WHS final CERT Simulation
Text and Photos by R.McKenzie
Six NEMCo CERT instructors arrived at Woodinville High School on Wednesday, January 8th, to support the Woodinville High School CERT class final simulation. Over 25 WHS students participated in the disaster class simulation.
The good news: it didn't rain that day, allowing five student groups of 4 to 5 students to successfully complete a series of challenges that tested their skills in lifting and cribbing, live fire suppression, triage, medical operations, and search and rescue. They worked as teams to extinguish fires, safely rescue a person from under heavy debris using cribbing materials and techniques, and medically assess and care for survivors in a medical area. They also performed triaging (sorting) survivors by severity of injury and need for professional care, continuously reassessing them for changing conditions and sometimes transporting them by flexible stretchers.
Way to go, Falcons! Your ability to contribute to any community you live in, work in, or visit has grown in a new way!
Many thanks to Danna K., the WHS class teacher, for inviting NEMCo CERT to support the final exercise.
NEMCo would like to recognize our volunteers for attending this activity: Pete, Pat, Lanea, Robert, Katrina, and Robin.
Jauary 2, 2025. NEMCo Supports WHS final CERT Simulation
By D. Singley Photos and Text
The NEMCo Drone Team held its first Drone Experience Project at their January monthly meeting. The Drone Subcommittee set up an indoor obstacle course, giving team members the experience of flying a drone within a confined space.
The course posed several challenges: pilots had to navigate the drone through a series of hoops at different heights, weave around poles, and fly through boxes, all of which tested their flight control skills.
Twenty-four team members received an initial briefing on flight control and drone operation. Ron Henson, NEMCo Pilot Lead, provided a demonstration of the drone, showcasing some of its capabilities and safety features. After the demonstration, team members began flying the course. Henson described this as an opportunity to help pilots develop their flight control skills.
The DJI Neo drone used in the course also incorporates a high-resolution 4K camera. With this feature, NEMCo plans to train pilots for indoor search operations. Before sending a rescue team into a potentially dangerous situation, NEMCo pilots can safely fly a drone into a confined space to identify hazards and locate injured persons. This situational awareness will enhance team safety.
Newsletters
NEMCo periodically publishes newsletters to showcase activities, events, tips and tricks, training, and to provide a spotlight on volunteers and their contributions.
Spring 2023 Newsletter (PDF)
Spring/Summer 2020 Newsletter (PDF)
Winter 2020 Newsletter (PDF)
Fall 2019 Newsletter (PDF)
Summer 2019 Newsletter (PDF)
Index to Newsletters (PDF)
Our 2023 Poster
IN MEMORIUM
Stephen Kronberg. a long-time amateur radio member, passed away on January 3, 2023. He was integral to so many of our NEMCo activities, including keeping our Sunday Night Nets going through the transitions of our organization and throughout the pandemic. He actively participated in many of our community service events, along with his wife, Karen, who sadly passed away in December 2020. He was inquisitive, inspiring, and such an asset to the ham radio community. His family has asked that in lieu of flowers, donations in his name be offered to an ALS charity or other organization in his name. The ham community in particular will deeply miss Steve. May you rest in peace. 73. Obituary