MILWAUKEE - This is the beginning of CITIZEN-driven efforts to be proud of that will offer opportunities for meeting, sharing, planning, alerting, training, networking, underpinning, securing the neighborhoods that WE live in the Milwaukee and nearby neighboring areas.

2010 Flood Disasters
Milwaukee and the neighbors to the north east have had two major flood disasters in 2010, where the People lost homes, basement areas flooded more than once, basements caved in, Nicolet High School and homes in Glendale, Shorewood and Whitefish Bay were also hard-hit.

We lost UW-Milwaukee student, Kyle Prelesnik, a 19 year old that drowned in the swollen Lincoln Creek flood.

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Damages were over $28.5 million dollars, according to Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke's report.

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Homeland Security - Neighborhood Disaster Preparedness is the focus for sustainable safety that includes every man, woman and child.  MPA Neighborhood Disaster Plan includes the reform for the Youth Promise Act.