FLOODFIGHTERS CONFERENCE 2007

The following announcement was circulated to YPDR by email. Contact information for those responsible for this conference is at the bottom of this posting.

Flood Fighters 2007

Update : August 22nd, Confirmed Speakers

Michael D Brown - Head of FEMA during 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina confirmed as Chairman on the 19th
CFO Paul Hayden - CFO of Hereford and Worcester, Chair of CFOA’s Operations Committee Fire and Rescue Service Inland Water Strategy Group, who will examine the future of climate change and the CFOA research project which he spearheaded
Gary Locker - ACPO Police Liaison, Cabinet Office
Malcolm Weatherall - Met Office
Mark Whyman ACC - South Yorkshire Police
Mark Smitherman CFO - South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service
Chief Fire Officer Phil Toase - West Yorkshire FRS on the FRNCC,
Flight Lt Gerry Taylor ARCC, RAF Kinloss
Rosanna Briggs - Essex County Council
Hugh Fogarty - RNLI Operations

Announced in February 2007, this year's Flood Fighters conference, which is being organised with the support of the UK Chief Fire Officers' Association (CFOA), has been made all the more pertinent by Britain's devastating floods.

Alongside a multitude of other agencies, Britain’s Fire and Rescue Services (FRS) worked on thousands of incidents and dramatic water rescues in June and July.

Hundreds of thousands of householders and businesses have been badly affected by the floods; it is estimated that damage, clean-up costs and other losses will run to billions of pounds.

Flood Fighters 2007 will focus on building a targeted and effective risk-based response from blue light emergency, local authority and public utility services and will draw upon a wide range of sources and disciplines, both national and international.

This multi-disciplinary event is expected to attract upwards of 150 delegates from all the disciplines that have been called upon to deal with the flooding disasters in the UK. The high calibre conference programme and target audience can be found at www.flood-fighters.com

Flood Fighters is organised by Crisis Response Journal and Lane, Jefferies & Associates Ltd with the full support of CFOA.

More information from: www.flood-fighters.com
Contact : flood@crisis-response.com

Who should attend

:: All Category 1 & 2 responders
:: Military
:: Airport fire services
:: Waterway managers
:: Local authorities
:: Health boards
:: Private sector
:: Volunteer associations
:: Police, Fire, Ambulance and Medical services
:: Public utilities
:: Coastguard
:: Local Resilience Forum
:: Power Generators
:: DEFRA
:: RLSS


www.flood-fighters.com
flood@crisis-response.com
+44 (0) 1306 876 856