- Conducting house-by-house search and rescue in the neighborhoods.
- Reporting the nature and severity of injuries to the County Emergency Operations Center (EOC) for dispatch of emergency services.
Providing Professional Home Watch Services in Sarasota, Bradenton, Lakewood Ranch,
Longboat Key, Siesta Key and surrounding communities.
LAKEWOOD RANCH, July, 2014 -- As weather
forecasters eye the season's first tropical depression
off the east coast of Florida, Manatee County is
considering the new Lakewood Ranch Operations
Center as a community distribution point for emergency
relief supplies should the need arise. Read the full story
- Assessing flooding, accessibility of neighborhood streets, gas leaks and fire.
- Assisting police, fire and Emergency Medical Services when they arrive on the scene.
Bradenton.com - January 2014
LAKEWOOD RANCH -- Ask Dick Vitale what he
loves most about life in Lakewood Ranch Country
Club, and the famed ESPN sportscaster rattles off
a list of the area's amenities: the arts, the
restaurants, Main Street …
"If I had to put it in Vitale-ese, It's awesome,
baby, with a capital A!" he shouts into his cell phone from Coral Gables, where he's getting ready to work the Miami-Duke college basketball game later that night.
Easily the Ranch's most well-known resident, Vitale and his wife, Lorraine, have lived in their 17,000- square-foot home in the Country Club's Portmarnock neighborhood for a decade now. Read the full Story
LAKEWOOD RANCH - March 2014
Rick Davis is a new member of the Lakewood Ranch Community Emergency Response Team
Lakewood Ranch CERT, established under a special
Department of Homeland Security and FEMA
program, is a volunteer organization of neighbors
who receive special training to provide search and
rescue, first aid and radio communications support
in response to disasters.
Disaster Support Provided: