TRAVERSE CITY, Mich., June 22, 2011 -- Earlier this month, a team from Midwest Card & ID Solutions participated in a large sandbagging effort just outside of Kansas City, Missouri, in anticipation of the impending Missouri River flood.

Brenden Ourth, Adam Sherwood, Gary Williams and John Sholey spent June 6-8 tagging and tracking volunteers in Parkville, Missouri, who had shown up for the massive preventative task. Over the course of the three long days, the Midwest Card team successfully accounted for 1,710 volunteers, business owners, and First Responders.

Utilizing Salamander Technologies' interTRAX® suite of products, the team set up two complete RapidTAG™ stations to create hard-card IDs; used COMMAND™ with three mobile units at incident command; employed one copy of MOBILE Express™ to track individuals down to the ICS assignment level; and worked closely with the IC staff, using the new CNIP product, to produce a 23-page incident action plan. Midwest Card also handed the Mayor of Parkville a 266-page report at the end of the event.

"It was a great feeling to assist our community and provide a solution that met all of their identification and accountability needs," Ourth said. "The incident went over so well that we have already attended a second sandbagging event using the Salamander system. The Deputy Emergency Manager for the county told the local authorities that if you want accountability done right, you have to call Midwest Card! It was a great way to demonstrate the product and prove its capabilities during a real event."

Salamander Technologies is the nation's leading provider of tracking solutions and field-based incident management tools. Salamander's pedigree lies in its ability to create high-capacity ID cards and site passes and then use those cards to track anyone at the site of an incident, including first responders, mutual aid, victims, evacuees, visitors, and others. The company's "Data-in-the-Tag™" advantage uses PDF 417 barcodes, RFID, and smart card technologies to increase site security, health and safety, time savings, and federal reimbursements. Based in Traverse City, Mich., the company provides simple, scalable, and interoperable accountability solutions to the public safety, government and private sector markets that comply with National Incident Management System (NIMS) and Personal Identity Verification (PIV) mandates.

The Salamander Technologies interTRAX® Suite is protected by U.S. Patent No. 5,596,652; 5,793,882; 5,573,278; 6,761,312; 7,191,934.

For more information, contact Salamander Technologies.