Woonsocket, RI, 08/09/2007 -- Scott Erickson (with megaphone), Operations and Recovery Specialist with FEMA Region I, briefs the participants in a prototype Point of Delivery (POD) event that instructed Emergency Recovery Managers from 27 Rhode Island communities along with representatives from the states of Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The event, hosted by th Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency, was held on Thursday, August 9, in conjunction with FEMA in order to inform and instruct community leaders on the establishment and operation of a POD site should a disaster strike their areas and residents are in need of water, food and ice. More than 150 volunteers from the area
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Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials
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09/08/2007
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The U.S. National Archives
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