REGION 3
The Region 3 Animal Response Team (R3ART) is the operational component of Region 3's Emergency Support Function 11, which is focused on animal response as an element of public health and safety.
A component of the CTSART program, the R3ART was the first of the 5
Regional Animal Response Teams to achieve operational status. The
primary mission of the R3 ART is to help preserve the public's health
and safety through facilitating complete and orderly evacuations.
Failure to evacuate is a major reason people resist or refuse to evacuate when requested to do so by authorities. R3ART is capable of deploying a temporary, household pet shelter for the co-located mass care of the household pets of evacuated or displaced citizens. Currently the team includes 45 CREPC credentialed individuals and a trailer-borne equipment cache able to shelter 750 animals anywhere in the Region.
In keeping with the requirements of the Connecticut Department of Emergency Management & Homeland Security, all active team members have completed CERT training, as well as a series of online FEMA Emergency Management Institute courses on the Incident Command System, the National Incident Management System and classroom training in animal behavior and handling skills. Many R3ART members have extensive professional experience as veterinary technicians, animal control officers, animal training and handling experts, as well as in public health and safety disciplines.
| REGION 3 |
| 09.23.09 | Regional Training Exercise |
| 04.25.09 | Third Annual CERT Training |
| 04.17.09 | Middletown Mass Care Exercise |
REGION
For more information on Region 3 ART Team Leader, please click on a name below.
Dr.
Arnold L. Goldman
Region 3 ART Team Leader
Dr. Howard Asher
Region 3 Deputy Team Leader
Mr. Thomas Gavaghan
DEMHS Region 3 Coordinator