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History of This Site In 2000 a small group of animal welfare advocates in a small town in Nebraska requested
permission to create an animal rescue agengy through the city's local emergency
response office. It had been observed that some accidents that occurred on the
surrounding highways and roads involved animals. Sometimes it was a cattle
truck or a horse trailer that lost control and ended up on its side in the ditch. Local responders
typically included EMT teams to handle the human injuries and to transport those in need of care to the local hospital. However, if any animals were injured or had gotten loose, the only resource
available at the time was to call local ranchers or farmers at their homes to
agree to help round them up, loaning their own horse trailers or other vehicles
to take them to a location for safety and treatment until better arrangements
could be made. Sometimes the only location available was the fairgrounds. Or,
sometimes a rancher had an empty corral and could host surviving animals until
other help arrived. As it turned out, most accidents involved family pets, usually dogs,
that were thrown from a car or pickup truck. Once the people were taken
care of, the task of finding and caring for the injured or lost pets fell to any
volunteers who wished to help. This became the prime objective of the
newly formed group, the Animal Disaster Rescue Team. Unfortunately, a small town has limited resources in that there are seldom
enough people to call upon to rescue the animals. And sadly, some animals died if
an accident was severe. Also, some accidents occurred at night, possibly
due to a driver falling asleep.
One member of the ADRT offered to create a website to help put attention
on its needs, hoping others would join. Then, to no one's surprise, the group
was not able to sustain itself, and the group, along with the website, soon was abandoned
by the city's emergency response office. The webmaster decided not to waste the resource, however, and took over
its operation, adding many other resources for online visitors to locate a wide
variety of information for many situations. The domain also was changed to its
current name, Crisis Control And Disaster Response Tactics (CCADRT). Our Mission
The site now features a large collection of links and articles to many different
websites in many different situations, from earthquakes to hurricanes, summer
and winter emergencies, flooding, fire and tornado advice, to power outages
and other issues. From how to prepare, then how to manage an emergency, and how
to recover from an event, the site incorporates information that includes one's
animals. Our Policies Because our goals include helping others get ready, get set and how to "go" in
many scenarios, our mission is to provide this space free of charge so all may
learn. This means we do not accept submissions of articles or links that are
obviously and merely advertisements for somebody's product or service. In
other words, this is not intended to be a free advertising site. It also helps, if anyone wants to have their submission accepted, to include
information about animal care on a par with what humans need to consider
during any emergency. Many people have pets they cherish. Many others, who have livestock and
are involved in large-animal operations, as well as those who enjoy a smaller
business or personal collection of large animals, may find information here
as well. We do not support pet breeders, slaughter operations, or pet sales. It might surprise some to know that we also do not engage in charitable
donation efforts, although we believe in them and donate personally when
possible. We simply do not have the time, web space and resources to
participate in those campaigns. It's a huge space to fill and would completely
overtake our current efforts to provide "information only." Visitors will not find products and services for sale here nor pleas to sign
petitions, or donation links to help animals in dire circumstances... as much
as we wish we could do it all, we cannot. Just our way of "keeping it simple" and most helpful. If anyone spots
a selling link, we appreciate being advised of it so we can delete it. Thank you for visiting CCADRT. We hope the information here can
help you plan, prepare and execute actions necessary to survive whatever
comes your way. |