Starting a Chapter

Our volunteers are passionate about changing lives in their communities, so we encourage people to begin to develop chapters in their local area, wherever that may be. We’ve designed our chapters to be easy to start up and to run extremely lean. Here’...

The lifeblood of any disaster responder is their go-bag. It contains everything they need to get thru an initial deployment (1-3 days). Here at OIA we ask every one of our Scout Team volunteers to keep and maintain a go-bag, especially during storm season. We’ll even...

The US Department of Homeland security has put together some great information teaching you how to be safe and prepared for the thunder and lightning storms that impact a large percentage of the United States each year. You should take the time now to read it and begin...