Why join MRC?
Major emergencies and disasters involving injury or disease to large numbers of people can overwhelm full-time emergency response personnel within the first 12 to 72 hours. Volunteers can provide an important "surge" capacity during these critical early hours and supplement medical and health personnel shortages.
The MRC helps fill these gaps with volunteers who've been organized, trained, assigned and pre-credentialed to assist where their expertise is best applied.
By registering and obtaining the required training you will be able to do what you are qualified to during a disaster as soon as you get to the location. But if you are a just-in-time volunteer, you will have to wait in line to get registered, credentialed, and trained in the ICS and NIMS before you get to do what you came there to do in a disaster. That will be frustrating. So if you intend to come and help us during a disaster then please register and be a part of DC-MRC now so you will be on the road to helping people during a disaster faster than ever. We will provide you opportunities to get trained in the MRC core competencies at the convenience of your home. Click here to visit our training page.
For immediate answers to your questions or to contact the DC- MRC recruiter, contact:
Kelli Kincaid
(740) 203- 2046
