Recent Japan Earthquake 3/11/11
The Pathfinders Task Force is ready to deploy to the Pacific in response to current catastrophic events. Specializing in situational awareness, spontaneous volunteers and mass-care, lessons learned from PTF Haiti, PTF Katrina, and other incident responses apply to the current scenario. Our 8 person team, in just eight days, distributed 2,429,200 meal rations under the World Food Programme.
For any questions on how to request the Pathfinders Task Force please contact:
Scott Lewis
m: 561-389-9667
scott @ theeagleswingsfoundation.org
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2010 GULF OIL SPILL
May 24, 2010
There's boom broken loose off St. Bernard Parish, a possible porpoise corpse in Louisiana's Black Bay, and myriad other oil-related incidents along the Gulf Coast as the spill that began last month reaches shore.
Keeping track of it all is a mammoth task.
But West Palm Beach gardener and on-call disaster expert Scott Lewis has an answer that's being used in the cleanup effort.
Lewis, owner of Scott Lewis' Gardening and Trimming, and Disaster Solutions LLC, has a patent pending for software that when loaded onto cheap cellphones allows fishermen and emergency workers to easily input information about oil spill events.
The phone doesn't require a cell tower, and it uses GPS so that locations can be easily pinpointed.
Downloaded onto a laptop computer, the data gives spill workers current information on exactly where they need to fix oil boom lines, locate dead wildlife or investigate new oil sightings.
About 100 phones are being used in Louisiana, where Lewis spent time in early May. Manatee County, on Florida's Gulf Coast, is testing the phones for use there.
"The biggest problem is the fishermen are hand-writing issues, latitude and longitude, down to the minute on a sheet of paper," said Lewis, who named the phone program Pathfinders Task Force, which is a subgroup of his Eagles Wings Foundation. "They're on little boats and it's windy, it's salty, and then they bring it to a command base and someone has to enter it into a computer."
Lewis came up with the idea for the phones after Hurricane Katrina when he was organizing relief efforts in Gulfport, Miss.
FULL STORY -
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/money/west-palm-mans-cellphone-technology-helps-track-oil-706496.html
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2010 - Haiti Earthquake
Our team is still on the ground in Haiti and the Eagles Wings Foundation appreciates all of your donations, which gives us the opportunity to continue helping the people of Haiti rebuild
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2008 – Hurricane Ike
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2004 – Hurricanes Charley, Frances, and Jeanne
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