This is possibly the most important Blog I have written. This is a subject that should be important to every resident everywhere. Most of us live in subdivisions, residential streets in a town. We have neighbors. How are we going to help ourselves and our neighbors when we experience an emergency. Please read on… WHAT …
Last year I registered to attend the 20 hour CERT training. I enjoyed the 3 day class. The final day simulated earthquake disaster exercise was eye opening. I realized how much the community where I live needs CERT volunteers. They issued me a backpack which included a Class 2 green CERT vest. I understand when …
High Visibility Bomber Jackets Search and Rescue is all about training, training, and more training! When a search is initiated by the Sheriff’s department to locate someone who is lost and possibly injured, all those responding to that call, must be well trained in their specialty. It might be the terrain is so difficult that only …
We are looking forward to SAREX 2014! So what is SAREX 2014? A two day convention of Search & Rescue squads from all over Northern California. It is being held in the city of Napa, CA Sept 5, 6, and 7. SAREX basically stands for Search & Rescue Exercises. There will be training exercises in …
We started tomstruckshop.com two years ago and while the business has grown, we felt it was time to make some changes. My daughter, the graphic designer, has wanted to be able to customize our website, add pictures, change the banner and multiple other tweaks but since I had the website hosted through a large ecommerce …
Fueling up your truck in Cheyenne WY in January, or trying to install a set of chains on the drive tires to get over Eisenhower, when you can’t feel your fingers any more because they are so cold, a good pair of dry insulated gloves become very important. But how do you keep a pair …
I live in Southern California. What do I know about snow? Yeah, we have to go to the mountains to get snow. Many people will travel up the mountain roads to get to the ski areas, other families will make a day of letting the kids play in the snow. But really, what do Southern …
