Relief Group Offers to Help Sparta Train for Disasters
World Care Center worked with eight homes in the township during Hurricane Irene.
When the winds of Hurricane Irene were wailing last August and the flood water rising, volunteers from the World Care Center were among those answering telephone calls at the NJ211 help line. Lisa Orloff, a regional representative for the World Care Center told the Sparta Township Council Tuesday that her disaster management organization would be willing to assist Sparta in its disaster training and planning. Orloff, of Montclair, told the council that during Irene her agency worked with 18 Sussex County homes, including eight in Sparta. World Care Center is a non-profit agency that provides disaster response training, she said. In New Jersey, the agency has worked with local offices of emergency management, municipal councils, and …
