the work

Volunteering for the City Assisted Evacuation during the 2009 Hurricane Season is one of the most worthy ways to donate your time. Becoming an Evacuteer is more than a commitment of time over the period of evacuation; it is a commitment to the well-being and safety of our neighbors and our communities.  There are three categories of locations at which evacuteers will be critical for effective evacuation. They are the Union Passenger Terminal, City Hall, and at one of the 17 Neighborhood Pick-Up Points. Please follow the links to see descriptions of the responsibilities of each.

Union Passenger Terminal Evacuteers

Commitment: Attend 1 training session and volunteer for at least a 7-hour shift.

The Union Passenger Terminal at 1001 Loyola Avenue is the busiest location that evacuteers will be needed, and requires well-trained and compassionate individuals to assist residents coming from neighborhood drop-off points. During the Gustav evacuation nearly 20,000 New Orleans residents utilized the CAEP and caught a bus or train out of the UPT.

Evacuteer Job Duties at the UPT:

*Regional Transit Authority (RTA) Bus Unloaders
*ID Bracelet Taggers
*Water-dispensers
*Support to Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA)
*Bilingual translators
*State-asset bus loaders
*Commodity loaders for state buses
*Scripters/Baggers
*Ferriers
*Wheelchair assistance
*RTA safety and bus loaders
*Embedded bus liaisons
*Baggage sorters
*Route information dissemination

City Hall Evacuteers

Commitment: Attend 1 training session and volunteer for at least two 4-hour shifts.

From four days before hurricane force winds hit the Louisiana coastline, volunteers will be needed at City Hall during pre-evacuation and pre-hurricane planning. The emergency planners welcome people who are willing and able to be courteous and friendly to people over the phone, run documents from different stations within City Hall and to credential the hundreds, if not thousands, of media who will be descending upon New Orleans.

Evacuteer Job Duties at City Hall:

* Credentialing media
* Running documents from Emergency Operations Center (EOC) to Press Office or vice versa
* Working in the Emergency Operations Center answering CAEP registration requests
* Answering press inquiries in the EOC and/or the Joint Information Center

Neighborhood Pick-up Point Evacuteers

Commitment: Attend 1 training session and volunteer for at least a 7-hour shift.

The 17 pick-up points around the City are easily accessible locations for residents in the event of a CAEP activation. Four sites are equipped for senior-citizens. During the Gustav evacuation, assistance at these pick-up points was minimal; evacuteer.org seeks to change that by providing on-site evacuteers to assist and inform evacuees utilizing those pick-up points to reach the central UPT.

View City Assisted Evacuation Pick-Up Locations in a larger and interactive  map.

Evacuteer Job Duties at Pick-Up Points:

*Tag evacuees’ airport/rail/bus identification badges with addresses, phones numbers, and secondary contacts
*Provide information to evacuees
*Assist evacuees boarding the bus
*Provide drinking water to evacuees