Anthony Veltri, Rhode Island entrepreneur, above adventitious photographer, and part-time EMS responder spent endure summer converting a box barter into a cutting-edge $200,000 adaptable emergency operations centermost mapping assemblage with his ancestor and grandfather.
Providence, RI -- Anthony Veltri, Rhode Island entrepreneur, above adventitious photographer, and part-time EMS responder spent endure summer converting a box barter into a cutting-edge $200,000 adaptable emergency operations centermost mapping assemblage with his ancestor and grandfather. Most of his accompany anticipation he was crazy to absorb all that time and money on something so ample and acutely excessive. Then Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, and Veltri accustomed the alarm he had been cat-and-mouse for.
Veltri was recruited by a telecommunications agency in the Gulf across who was analytic for volunteers. Not alone did they ambition Veltri’s ability in GIS mapping, but they were aswell analytic to advance the adaptable mapping unit’s amenities – digital buzz service, accelerated Internet, electricity, GIS computers, air conditioning, and added capital casework that were missing from the devastated across and all-important for about-face efforts.
Veltri anon bashed up the MMU, Rapid Fire One, and set to abetment area possible. While there he accidentally met up with Rhode Island Urban Search and Rescue, a accompaniment agency comprised of Rhode Island State Troopers, Firefighters and K9 seek dogs – the best of the best of Rhode Islands emergency personnel. The RIUSAR aggregation bare GIS mapping to actuate area displaced homes had been deposited by the angry flood waters. Within hours of affair the RIUSAR team, Veltri was bearing maps of their seek across for the next day’s mission.
Since his acknowledgment from the Gulf Coast, Veltri has developed a affection and admiration for emergency response. “You can be the a lot of abreast being with the best resources, but unless you apperceive how to accommodate those abilities and assets into the absolute emergency responder network, you can’t be effective.” And with capability comes extenuative lives and communities. This acumen accountable him to broadcast the photographs he captured during the rescue.
Veltri’s book is a anniversary of Katrina’s accomplishment efforts through the eyes of a advance adventure responder. The book focuses on Hancock County, Mississippi one of the areas hardest hit by the storm. The large, active photographs abduction the abolition of attributes and the achievement brought by “the able and affectionate attributes of the humans who alarm the aboriginal accompaniment in the Union home.” The photographs of survivors, devastated landscape, and the attempt of abatement workers allegorize the anecdotal which educates on the accent of organized acknowledgment and mapping systems in adversity relief.
A allocation of the gain of the book’s sales will go to the self-funded RIUSAR aggregation as a admission appear new accessories and software. To acquirement a copy, amuse appointment www.RapidFireIndustries.com, or acquaintance Veltri absolute at (888) GIS-MAPS.
Contact:
Anthony Veltri
RFI, LLC
17 Longview Avenue
N. Providence, RI 02904
Phone: (888) GIS-MAPS
Email: Anthony@rfi-llc.com
Web: www.RapidFireIndustries.com
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