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            <h4>NAVFAC Southeast CERT Deploys to NAS Kingsville after Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas</h4>
            


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Naval Facilities Engineering Command
(NAVFAC) Southeast dispatched a 12 person Contingency Engineering Response Team
(CERT) today to Naval Air Stations (NASs) Kingsville and Corpus Christi, Texas
from NAS Jacksonville who will meet up with another 5 person team from Public
Works Department Fort Worth out of NAS Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas.
The CERT will evaluate facilities on base that may have received damage from
Hurricane Harvey as it passed through the Corpus Christi area.<br>
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The CERT has Disaster Assessment Teams (DATs) which
consist of structural, electrical, and mechanical engineers, architects,
roofing specialists, community planners and construction contract specialists
that deploy to begin Rapid Damage Assessments.<br>
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“The CERTs 17 members are heading to NAS Kingsville and
then on to NAS Corpus Christi. They plan to arrive tomorrow, August 28, to
assist in the base with damage assessments. Two teams are out of Jacksonville
and one is out of Ft. Worth,” said NAVFAC Southeast Disaster Preparedness
Officer Lt. Cmdr. Ryan Thrun.<br>
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It is during this phase that damage is rapidly assessed
to support restoration of basic functions such as debris removal and reopening
roadways, expedient roof repairs, and resumption of sanitation, water,
electricity and communications services.<br>
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Integrated Product Team Gulf Coast Assistant Operations
Officer Cmdr. Anant Patel is the CERT Officer in Charge with each DAT having a
team lead.&nbsp;<br>
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“As a civil engineer corps officer, I have a unique skill
set, deployment experience and ability to be able to respond to emergency
situations,” said Patel. “NAVFAC and the Seabees have a proud tradition of
answering the call when disasters happen and I am honored to volunteer to carry
on this tradition and coordinate our efforts in Texas.”<br>
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DAT Team Lead Ensign Derick Schmitz, PWD Jacksonville
Construction Manager and Civil Engineer Corps Officer stated, “I hope to learn
a lot about logistics, planning, team management and leadership. This
experience will bring me together with engineers of different disciplines and I
am excited to help get the base back to normal operations as soon as possible.”<br>
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Sending engineers around the world is not new to NAVFAC.<br>
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“We always have a trained CERT ready to go at a moment’s
notice,” said Thrun.&nbsp;<br>
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Typically, these teams deploy to assess hurricane or
other storm damage to military installations such as was the case most recently
in February 2017 and October 2016 when teams deployed to assist the United
States Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany, Georgia when tornadoes devastated
the base and the United States Navy's Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation
Center (AUTEC), located on Andros Island in the Bahamas after Hurricane Matthew
impacted the facilities there.<br>
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“I served as a structural engineer on a DAT to AUTEC and
am on the team going to Texas today,” said Pam Cowden, NAVFAC Southeast
structural engineer. “As a team we tour the facilities on base and provide a
rapid assessment of the damages. We document the damage to start the process
for repairs. We also document and mark any facilities that we feel will be
unsafe due to damage so that safety hazards can be avoided and mitigated.”<br>
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Cowden also shared that, “It is a good feeling to be able
to help people feel safe returning home or to work when I can assure them that
the building is safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>When buildings are
found to be unsafe, sometimes I can help to make it safe temporarily until
final repairs can be made by recommending shoring, removal or bracing of
damaged building elements. Putting my book of knowledge into practice is very
gratifying.”<br>
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Previous CERTs have seen widespread devastation from
tornado damage not only on Albany MCLB, but also in the surrounding community
when they were in Georgia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>There was
extensive damage to pre-engineered metal buildings that had been reduced to a
pile of twisted metal and debries that a tornado had picked up and deposited on
the other side of a building in a crumbled up mess.&nbsp;<br>
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“We deploy at a moments notice to help the installation
as many of their personnel may have been evacuated or tending to their family
and their own property assessments immediately following the storm,” said
Patel.</p>
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