URGENT Call-Out – You are Needed!

Dear CO and WY Disaster Relief Volunteers,

YOUR HELP IS DESPRETLY NEEDED!!! CBDR is involved with two disaster events and need volunteers ASAP!

1. We are presently serving in Nederland, CO with our Laundry Unit doing laundry for this mountain community who lost their only laundromat after a major fire. This service is such a blessing to them, and we need to be able to keep this operation going for a few more weeks. If you live within driving distance and could take a morning or afternoon shift, please contact me as we are trying to make a schedule: 9:00am-1pm and 1pm-5:30pm, serving 3 or 5 days per week. I will give you more details once I hear back from you. (You will be washing, drying and folding clothes for the community.)

2. Major Flooding in Vallecito County (Bayfield area) There are over 100 homes that have been flooded and two homes destroyed – and this is just in one area. We desperately need your help to serve in Bringing: Help, Hope and Healing to this community. We need to deploy as early as Monday for one or two weeks to begin with. Other organizations are already on site doing assessments and beginning clean up. CBDR needs to get on site ASAP! I have made arrangements with Vallecito Church in Bayfield for our housing, meals and laundry.

Please let me know if you can respond to this deployment:

  • Can you deploy before or on Monday morning, October 20th?
  • What other dates would you be available?

This callout is URGENT, and we NEED YOU! Please email or text me with your availability. (We will be doing mud-out, drywall removal, pressure wash and shock wave spraying.)

Serving together,

Dennis Belz, CBDR Dir.

Bringing Help, Hope and Healing

Deployment Procedures

As you are aware, we need to be prepared to deploy at any time.

Volunteers need to meet the following requirements:

  1. Complete the SBDR Trainings required
  2. Complete a background check
  3. Have updated credentials (Required every 3 years)
  4. Have medical insurance and have completed the personal and medical forms. Get Forms

How Deployment Notices are made:

Once the CBDR State Director receives word of a potential deployment, you will receive an ALERT message. This will be posted on our CBDR Web site www.ColoradoDR.org  and you will receive a mass email with pending information available at that time.

  • If you respond by email or text that you are interested and available, then you will receive additional emails with more details as we get closer to deploying.
  • Your next notice will be a STANDBY notice (this is time to get your bags packed and be ready to deploy at a moment’s notice once we receive the final “GO” or NO GO from officials
  • Once we receive the final “GO”, then you will receive all the final details concerning the deployment.

Deployment Information Shared:

  1. Location that we will be deploying to
  2. Travel plans (time and location of where team will meet)
  3. Housing plans for travel and deployment site
  4. Specific circumstances at the disaster location
  5. Specific assignment of service
  6. Length of time for deployment (Out of state will be 1 or 2 weeks)
  7. Contact information of person to report to at site
  8. Any other pertinent information available at the time of deployment concerning the response

How to Deploy

  • Do NOT self-deploy. You must be a part of a CBDR deployment team.

  • All Volunteers must provide proof of health insurance. A copy should be given to your CBDR Team Leader heading up the deployment team.

  • All Volunteers must fill out a current year Personal and Medical Information Form.

Important Forms

Our Fleet of CBDR Vehicles

Shower Unit

This is how we have come to know love: He laid down his life for us. We should also lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. If anyone has this world’s goods and sees a fellow believer in need but withholds compassion from him—how does God’s love reside in him?

1 John 3:16-17