Originally Posted By: gbeaumont This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
one of the 2 FEMA disaster contractors.
They are in urgent need of Fema trained Inspectors to go to Florida ASAP. I did thier training last year, and wanted to go but due to other commitments that I just can't leave, and had to refuse.
If any members are Fema trained and can commit to 30 days max in Florida please call PB Inspections on:
Originally Posted By: gbeaumont This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
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You need to be able to make yourself available for a minimum 30 days, but to be honest the money is not at all bad when you have got used to the work. I know of a few newer inspectors who stayed in the black in their early years by making themselves available to FEMA contractors.
Originally Posted By: dharris This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
This may be to late for the recent fla diaster, but Az Sun Tech has a FREE 8 hr PaRR disaster as a part of FEMA seminar on Sat Sept 4 and another one on Sat Nov 11
Originally Posted By: rshumake This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Just signed up with both websites. Currently there are no training classes listed in the southeast area. Odd that this is the hurricane area but no way of taking there training. Wait and see.
Originally Posted By: gbeaumont This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Hi Richard,
Neither provider uses specialized trainers, the guys that I know and have spoken to are in fact field supervisors, needless to say that they are all out in south Florida right now, and I would not be surprised to see some of their training seminars postponed over the next couple of months.
Originally Posted By: rshumake This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Kevin, I received an email that stated the online courses are after you complete the required 8 hour course. If you find out different please let me know.
Originally Posted By: dkeough This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Hey Kevin and Richard
You take an 8 hr seminar then they will give you your password where you can practice doing mock disaster inspections. I took the class back in January/February of this year in Ft Laud. I know they had one in Tampa also. Not a bad gig. Dave Bush has been on some of the disaster inspections. This topic has been covered in the past, maybe want to search for the past discussion.
Originally Posted By: jburkeson This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
gbeaumont wrote:
You need to be able to make yourself available for a minimum 30 days, but to be honest the money is not at all bad when you have got used to the work. I know of a few newer inspectors who stayed in the black in their early years by making themselves available to FEMA contractors.
Gerry,
Is that 30 continuous days of work? If you are going to a disaster area to work where do you stay for 30 days? What are the pay expectations for the 30 days of work?
Thanks,
Joe.
-- Joseph Burkeson, RPI (Hooperette)
?Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.?
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Originally Posted By: gbeaumont This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Joe B wrote:
Is that 30 continuous days of work? If you are going to a disaster area to work where do you stay for 30 days? What are the pay expectations for the 30 days of work?
Yes Joe, they need a 30 day commitment from inspectors, you pay all your own expences in the field for example, car rental (if its too far to drive) Hotels, meals etc. they do pay your round-trip airfare or a milage allowance. In some real bad areas you would be roughing it with the locals in some cases, but most of thetime you can finf hotels/motels etc within driving distance.
Pay is by the job, typically $45-50 per inspection, an experienced FEMA inspector working in a populated area like Port Charlotte would do about 12-15 per day, plus there are bonuses for acuracy, speed of delivery of reports etc. you could expect a gross of about $15-20K, your nett would depend on location and costs but I would say that $8-10k for a months work would be about right.
When you have experience of a couple of different types of disaster the rate goes up, also you may be asked to mentor new FEMA inspectors on site which also is finacially rewarding.
They supply a "pen tablet PC" with software to do the reports on (not a home inspection report as we know it) it is an assessment of basic needs and house condition, foe example "is the roof still on, or is the roof repairable".
BUT, it's long hours few if any days off, in sometimes lousy conditions, and you will get to see some distressing sights and be dealing with families that have just gone through major trauma, and in many cases lost everything including loved ones !!
In some cases you really need to stop and think if can deal with this yourself and maintain objectivity.
Originally Posted By: jburkeson This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
kmcmahon wrote:
based on that map, I'd raise the federal tax on anyone living on or near a coastline.
Based on what we saw in the aftermath of Charlie at Punta Gorda outlawing trailers, trailer parks and single-wides on the Florida Peninsula might be in order.
-- Joseph Burkeson, RPI (Hooperette)
?Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.?
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn