♪ First responders from Kentuckyian beyond gathered at the Center for Rural Development in Summer said yesterday the center teamed with the Rule Domestic Preparedness Consortium for a special class designed to help rule and underserved communities ready for a wide range of crises.

>> I've got 65,000 souls here.

That I have to consider as far as what happens.

If we have.

Tornadoes.

We have severe weather.

We have snow storms, ice storms.

We have a train derailment.

Tanker overturned.

How to walk ornate the efforts of these response agencies to mitigate that situation efficiently safely and quickly, one of the things that we have to do in a planning was proper training of our responders.

And so our TPC provides a lot of that training that's needed in rural areas like we live in here.

>> The consortium is under FEMA.

Homeland Security.

And the goal is to increase our preparedness in our rule community.

Today.

We're talking about how do we assist people with functional needs?

>> During a disaster and also are under resourced and underserved communities.

So during a disaster is not the time to figure that out.

It snail.

>> We don't always have the biggest and the best because we may be limited our funding.

We may be limited on personnel.

And so these courses are tailored to meet.

I'm the type of society that we live in.

You know, we're not a Phoenix.

We're not at a Los Angeles where Plaskett County, where Somerset, where you bank, where Ferguson, where, where we're small communities with small resources, the way that I teach the course is what are you doing in your community?

>> 4 h one of the situation.

So if we dive deeper in one area because that community made that we dive deeper, who are the people in your community who may take a little extra time to help?

How are we connecting with those people?

>> And a diverse group of community partners to make sure that people who are in need who have functional mates or how our underserved in our communities that we're prepared to serve them quickly and efficiently in response to gather.

It just depends on the needs of that.

>> Class.

We have this idea that the cavalry is going to come in and say this.

We are at the cavalry.

We have to take care of ourselves first and and the very first thing we have to do is understand what our vulnerabilities are.

>> The center for rural development opened in 1996.

The nonprofit serves 45 counties in southern and eastern Kentucky by supporting community and economic development.

Opportunities.

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