AIRS Continues Work in Flood Ravaged Iowa

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, July 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AIRS, the Alliance of Information and Referral Systems, is maintaining its Disaster Response Teams as flood ravaged regions of Iowa continue to recover. According to a recent report by two AIRS DRT members -- Jeri Shumate from Oregon and Jonathan Padgett from New Orleans -- who worked in the Cedar Rapids region over the 4th of July holiday weekend, the major focus of their work related to introducing an online tool for tracking callers, and setting it up so it could enter and document the more than 21,000 calls that had been captured on paper at the local 2-1-1 call center in the time period immediately after the floods. In addition, weeks after the disaster, the 2-1-1 call center was receiving calls from residents on topics which included: How to sign up for FEMA... [read full story]