NC Wing Civil Air Patrol - Disaster Services

Welcome to the North Carolina Wing Disaster Services Facebook page. Civil Air Patrol Disaster Services, also known as Disaster Relief, or DR, currently comprise the following programs and Opportunities to Serve:

*Points of Distribution - The organized distribution of life-saving commodities such as food and water to the general public following a major disaster. This program is run in partnership with the North Carolina Division of Emergency Management.
http://www.nccrimecontrol.org/Index2.cfm?a=000003,000010

*Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) - Citizens with disaster related training designed to assist when Public Safety resources are otherwise unavailable during a disaster. This program is part of Citizencorps, a citizen program coordinated by the Federal Government.
http://www.citizencorps.gov/cert

*SkyWarn - stormspotting program based on the National Weather Service (NWS) SkyWarn program. This is a home-based program with trained CAP stormspotting personnel relaying weather information to their local National Weather Service office. More information on the SkyWarn program can be found here:
http://www.skywarn.org

*Logistics Liaison Team - NC Wing CAP has partnered with NCEM to provide specially trained personnel to assist local governments with warehousing operations during a disaster to coordinate the receipt, and dispatching of commodities to PODs and other operations.