Schoolcraft emergency team practices for disease outbreak

Schoolcraft emergency team practices for disease outbreak: "“One of the problems with bringing residents to a centralized clinic is that you have to avoid spreading an infection from those who might already have it to those who haven’t been exposed. That’s where the drive-through concept came from.” The exercise was also tested a new computer software program, “E-Team,” now being used in Michigan to manage “critical incidents” via the Internet, said Dan Brown, coordinator of the Public Safety Emergency Response and Homeland Security in Michigan’s eighth district, which includes Schoolcraft County. Continued from page 1A E-Team software is accessible through the internet to all emergency management departments, with responders receiving four hours of training and a password/ access code, Brown said. "