Preparing for Hurricane Irene's landfall on the East Coast

Greetings!

August 25, 2011

With Hurricane Irene making its way up the East Coast over the next 96 hours, ASSIST-U.S.® stands ready to support your emergency response teams in the storm's aftermath with real-time, streaming aerial surveillance video imagery services.

Please read on to learn how to secure these services in a timely manner, when they can be most effective.

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Hurricane Irene's Storm Path, August 25th, 2011

Preparing for Hurricane Irene's landfall on the East Coast

Hurricane Irene is forecasted to make landfall along the outer banks of North Carolina on Saturday, 8/27/11, and continue up the East Coast and through New England, central New York, eastern Pennsylvania and into Canada by Monday, 8/29/11.

Your emergency response teams are already busy tracking Irene's path and implementing your emergency preparedness plans in anticipation of the storm affecting your area. Whenever you deploy these teams in a storm's aftermath, performing post-storm damage assessment and triage are among the most difficult, dangerous and labor-intensive aspects of dealing with storms of this magnitude.

Real-time streaming aerial video imagery services can help with post-storm damage assessment and recovery operations

Using a real-time video imagery service immediately following a natural disaster can significantly help your emergency response field teams to efficiently direct their limited resources to the areas hardest hit and safely guide them around debris fields and other obstacles.

These services are available upon request

ASSIST-U.S.® stands ready to support municipal, state and business emergency management directors and incident commanders with streaming real-time aerial, full motion video imagery of the aftermath of this storm.

As of this writing, we have enough advance warning to stage our aircraft and flight crews west of the predicted landfall so that we can be on scene as soon as the storm has passed and it is safe to fly. Our operational teams are currently scheduling their deployment areas.

If you want to be included in our pre-storm planning, please contact our Sales Director, David Trahan (see contact information below), to be sure the proper contract documentation is in place.

ASSIST-U.S.® Natural Disaster Response

This video, "Natural Disaster Response," provides an example of what our services can offer you, showing before and after views of the recent Springfield, MA, tornado damage area and the Vermont spring floods.

View other examples of our post-storm damage assessment footage on our YouTube Channel (see link below) and our website.

Call now to secure your slot on the schedule!

Please contact David Trahan, 603-738-4310 (m), as soon as possible to initiate your mission planning process.

While our flight crews are deployed, Carolyn Abbott, Director of Marketing Communications, is our emergency communications manager. In an emergency or if you are unable to reach me, please contact her at:

Carolyn Abbott: 978-621-9427 (m) or 978-874-2408 (land)/

Carolyn will make the necessary arrangements to get you into our mission queue.

Sincerely,

David J. Trahan, Director of Sales & Marketing

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