Sunday, April 21, 2013

Disaster Relief Missions Continue in ILWG




As record-breaking rainfalls continue to impact many Illinois communities, the requests for CAP resources is also continuing. After closing out a multi-day operation in the Mc Henry County municipality of Algonquin yesterday, today brought a request from the Lake County Emergency Management Agency.

The request was for aerial photography of critical infrastructure and impacted areas county-wide. Areas of concern were identified by the customer agency, and CAP aircrews were assigned those areas throughout the day. Using GIIEP technology and digital photography, CAP was able to assist with  validating the customer's flood model prediction.  The goal was to quantify where flood waters went, or where it is on roadways or shorelines, and to quantify the number of structures for Damage Assessment purposes.

Two aircraft were assigned this mission, and operations concluded for the day at 1600L, with over 500 photos taken and delivered to the customer. Mission staff and air operations were based at ILWG HQ, at DuPage Airport. Incident Commander, Major Andrew Welch, was very pleased with today's product and efforts: "Thank you to all of the dedicated members who responded to assist the Lake County EMA with photographs to assist their damage assessment efforts.  The County EMA director expresses his thanks as well."


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