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TD swimmers score 10 wins at Philomath | A9 ▶ ▶ Life Planning & St. Mary Super Auction | INSIDE Weekend $1.00 January 25-26, 2020 The Dalles, Oregon www.thedalleschronicle.com Vol. 229, Issue 8 When disaster strikes Volunteers learn emergency response skills Sacon ■ By The Walker Dalles Chronicle Volunteers with a local Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) were trained in January for everything from first-aid and “disaster psychology” to proper storage of household chemicals ahead of a disaster. The newly-formed Mid-Columbia CERT’s trainings on Jan. 10-11 and Jan. 17-18 prepared volunteers for a disaster with presentations and hands-on practice. Volunteers finished the trainings with new skills and a CERT backpack full of disaster response items. Trainings were facilitated by Mid-Columbia CERT coordinator Lynette Black and Mid-Columbia Fire and Rescue training division chief Rob Torrey and held at Mid- Columbia Fire and Rescue. In addition to training, Mid- Columbia CERT will continue to meet monthly, Black said. Volunteers learned the basics of di- saster response, including first-aid and “cribbing,” or rescuing patients from collapsed structures. They also learned how to prepare their homes to help with disaster response and survival. Black said volunteers wearing CERT’s signature green vests will help lead the recovery process during a real disaster. “They’re going to be looking to you to estab- lish order and restore that sense of safety,” she told volunteers. Torrey said preparedness was Braiden Page practices a head-to-toe patient assessment on Jacob Powell at a Community Emergency Response Team training on Jan. 17 at Mid-Columbia Fire and Rescue. Page volunteers with Mid-Columbia Fire and Rescue where his father, Rob Torrey, is a division chief. Walker Sacon photos “The worst time to first meet someone is during an emergency.” Rob Torrey Division Chief, MCF&R important to disaster-response. “This is the basic entry to this as a lifelong student,” he said. Torrey was involved with CERT at his previous job with the Redmond Wash. Fire Department, where he retired four years ago after 31 years with the department. He said the CERT program there had 500 volunteers, and extolled the value of preparing for an orga- nized response. “The worst time to first meet someone is during an emergency,” Torrey said. Brian Tuck, a former volunteer firefighter and EMT in The Dalles and Sherman County who attended the training, said he remembers a lack of manpower as a constant theme of volunteering. “We always needed more people,” Tuck said. “It’s kind of fun to get back into this after all these years,” Tuck said. Mid-Columbia CERT’s first course trained 10 volunteers, and another course, which meets on Thursdays through Feb. 20, is underway. Black, who has 20 years of CERT experience, was the coordinator of Mid-Columbia Fire and Rescue training division chief Rob Torrey demonstrates dressing and bandaging a wound on Mid- Columbia Community Emergency Response Team coordinator Lynette Black during a CERT training on Jan. 17. CERT volun- teers were trained on how to triage and treat patients in a disaster situation. Find additional photos on page 10. Clackamas CERT when she moved to The Dalles 11 years ago. She tried to get a CERT program going after the move but didn’t find enough interest locally. Now, Black said, more people want to get involved and she has received a grant for a cache of re- sponse equipment. Another round of basic CERT training takes place Monday, March 9 through Friday, March 13 from 1-5 p.m. High-tech metal printing continues to grow B. Gibson ■ By The Mark Dalles Chronicle I3DMFG, a 3D metal printing company with corporate offices in Bend and a manufacturing facility at the Port of The Dalles continues to grow and is in the early stages of planning to expand or relocate its The Dalles plant, Greg Mercado, chief operations and quality officer in The Dalles, told members of The Dalles Rotary Wednesday. Mercado said the company was considering moving its manufac- turing to the Redmond/Bend area, closer to where the companies corporate offices are located, but it is much too early say if that would happen, and expansion of the plant in The Dalles is also under consideration. The company currently has seven metal printing machines in operation, valued at around $1.5 million each. Six of the machines print within a 10 inch cube, and the newest within approximately a 16-inch cube. “We do 3D metal printing in different materials using metal dust and direct lasers in a vacuum environment,” Mercado said. The printing of a single part can take three or four days. “We do a lot of space stuff, as well as firearms, high end bicycles and parts for medical devices,” he said. Each printer is self-contained, resembling an office copy machine with a built in microwave. The process involves thin layers of dust, measured in microns, which are melted from powder into a solid by the lasers. They use primarily super-nickel, titanium and alumi- num alloys. “We are doing some ex- perimental things as well,” Mercado said. In the past, efforts were made to use copper, but that “didn’t work so well.” The process is “additive,” each layer building onto the next. Parts are designed for “printability,” as the process is better suited for for printing some angles and shapes and not others. The threading of a hole to receive a bolt, for example, is better done after the printing is finished, as the printing process typically creates to tight a fit. He said the main benefit of the process was the ability to cre- ate “microchannels” within the INSIDE See PRINTING, page A2 Greg Mercado, chief operations and quality officer at I3DMFG, a metal 3D printing manufacturing facility in The Dalles, uses his hands to sketch the size of the space in one of the company’s larger machines, in which parts are “print- ed” using metal dust and lasers at a The Dalles Rotary meeting Wednesday. Mark B. Gibson photo Community calendar Opinion History A2 A4 A5 Comics Obituaries Sports Contact Black at lynette.black@ oregonstate.edu or 503-806-7132 for training registration or more in- formation on Mid-Columbia CERT. For general information about CERT visit www.ready.gov/cert. Winner announced Jan. 28 The winning town in the Small Business Revolution’s voting competition, in which The Dalles competed with four other towns to be the featured town of the fifth season of its business revitaliza- tion program, will be announced at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 28, and a watch party will be held at The Dalles Civic Auditorium as the winner is declared. Doors open at 4:30, with snacks and a no host bar in the commu- nity room. The video presentations can be watched from seating in the main auditorium, the balcony, and on a second screen for overflow in the Community Room, according to event planners. At around 5 p.m. Small Business Revolution will announce the win- ner. In the winning town, Amanda Brinkman, the show creator and co-host, will step out on stage and shout the name of the winner. More information can be found at lovethedalles.com. A7 A8 A9
