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From: Ron Dodson

To: NRCEV@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 3:43 PM

Subject: RE: [NRCEV] We DO have jobs to do

 

Joe Moell K0OV wrote: I disagree. With a little effort, hams COULD have important jobs to
do on a week-to-week basis.

I agree. In Kentucky we have several groups who assist regular localized activities.

In western Kentucky, we have one group who regularly assists local EMA with checks on county storm warning devices (Sirens). They report on any which fail to activate during regular scheduled tests.

Another northern Kentucky ARES group are called in on almost any lost person search to support the law enforcement search efforts and yes, they are trained in lost person search and in many cases a good deal of the members have even taken search management training. Other groups work with local CitizenCorps CERT’s and regional National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) and Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS) activities while others work with regional weapons of mass destruction/ haz-mat/ bio response teams that our state homeland security operate. One south central Ky group performs “Highway Overpass Watch” details assisting local law enforcement in preventing trouble at interstate overpasses on events such as Halloween night. There is a world of things one can do if you make the right connections and carry out requests responsibly.

73,

Ron Dodson, KA4MAP

Former Ky SEC

-----Original Message-----
From: NRCEV@yahoogroups.com [mailto:NRCEV@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of homingin73
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 12:43 AM
To: NRCEV@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [NRCEV] We DO have jobs to do

Doug wrote:
>That is a lack of a job to do. Fortunately
>communications emergencies are rare events.

 There are potential clients that will use
us. It may be true that "all else fails" events are rare, but
communications disruptions do occur regularly. If hams are ready and
callout systems are in place, we can serve agencies in these
emergencies, getting valuable on-the-job training and developing
excellent rapport with agency leaders.

Take a look at www.hdscs.org

This ARES group has never had an "all else fails" disaster, but in 25
years it has responded almost 100 times to provide valuable service
when hospital patients' lives were at risk due to comms interruptions.
Ask any hospital disaster planner or Emergency Medical Services
Agency person in Orange County about ham radio and they will have
plenty of good things to say because of this continuous level of
preparedness and service.

That brings me to my beef with ARRL leadership -- it has been too
focused on "all else fails" Katrina-like disasters and has not paid
enough attention to hams' providing valuable support in the "little"
emergencies that will cement our bonds with agencies and get us ready
for the really big events.

73,
Joe Moell K0OV
Assistant Coordinator, HDSCS

 

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