FULCRUM SOFTWARE FREE TO AID OFFICIALS FACING CATASTROPHES

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Free-Press-Release.com) April 30, 2007 -- Spring Branch, Texas MAY 2, 2007

There's a new powerful tool on the street to help protect the public during catastrophes...and it is free! TAO Emergency Management Consulting of Spring Branch, Texas, and Idealsoft, Inc � Asvaco of Simi Valley, California, announced the launching of FULCRUM, a free tool to help locally elected officials in the United States. FULCRUM software provides quick guidance for local elected officials who are faced with making timely decisions in catastrophic situations. Rick Tobin, TAO�s President and CEO, developed FULCRUM with Idealsoft as a volunteer project without public funding. TAO recently collaborated with the National Association of Counties (NACo) to release FULCRUM to county elected officials whose counties are members of NACo.

Rick Tobin stated, �TAO and Idealsoft are both in the business of making the U.S. a safer place. There simply wasn�t a tool like FULCRUM available for elected officials. We wanted to make a product that any official could use in a few minutes to find straightforward guidance when the worst imaginable things happened.�

Tobin understood that the needs for elected officials required a different approach because, besides his decades in emergency management, he was once also an elected local official faced with major losses to public infrastructure after disastrous flooding. �We were able to make FULCRUM easy to use, fast, and compact for portability on flash drives.�

�However,� Tobin stated, �Fulcrum was not designed for use by emergency managers or field responders, or for corporate operations. It is designed solely for local elected officials in the United States.�

FULCRUM software is only available for distribution through approved associations, like NACo, which represent the needs of locally elected officials. For further information about FULCRUM contact Rick Tobin of TAO Emergency Management Consulting at (830)-885-7057.

Rocky Lopes, NACo�s Homeland Security Project Manager, stated that, �NACo is now distributing the FULCRUM software to its membership at no additional charge as part of its Disaster and Terrorism Toolkit.� Contact Rocky Lopes at (202)-661-8841 or visit www.naco.org.