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- Subject: RB338 EMA Assistance Available
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- TO: ALL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES VIA AMATEUR RADIO
- INFO: ALL COMMUNICATIONS VOLUNTEERS IN GOVERNMENT SERVICE
- INFO: ALL AMATEURS U.S (@USA: INFORMATION); CAP, MARS
- FROM: CA GOVERNORS OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES
- (W6SIG@WA6NWE.CA) Ph: 916-262-1600
- 2800 Meadowview Rd., Sacramento, CA 95832
- Landline BBS Open to All: 916-262-1657
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- RACESBUL.338 SUBJECT: MGT - EMA Assistance Available
- RELEASE DATE: August 8, 1994
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- These bulletins serve multiple purposes both for the
- civil defense or the emergency management agency and the program
- participants.
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- For the agency a major purpose is to assist it in the use
- of emergency communications volunteers as unpaid staff. How to
- best use them can be very satisfying. Having qualified extended
- staff (albeit it unpaid) can provide astonishing benefits to the
- agency and the community.
- Material and other assistance about this is available
- upon request. Assistance includes on-site seminars for local
- government, the emergency management agency and the program
- participants. Materials range from policy and guideline
- suggestions to actual emergency communications plan preparation
- customized to the local needs. A particularly valuable resource
- is the State OES manual "Establishing and Maintaining an
- Emergency Communications Reserve", which is based on the
- information bulletins to Emergency Management Agencies issued by
- the Auxiliary Communications Service from l985-1993. [Free to
- California jurisdictions. Others may request a copy with a $12
- check payable to the State of California. ]
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- For the program participants a major purpose is to discover how
- to function as "unpaid staff" of the agency alongside the paid
- staff; i.e., how to become an integral part of the agencies
- day-to-day activity. How to benefit both the participant and the
- agency by skills other than "just operating a radio", and the
- unheralded rewards and deep sense of a worthwhile contribution
- that ensue. With the expansion of Public Safety communications
- systems there is a real need for augmentation of staff (albeit
- unpaid) capable of providing maintenance and operation of these
- systems during extended emergencies. The use of Public Safety
- systems by program participants can range from augmenting 911
- systems to the emergency installation, maintenance and operation
- of local government radios.
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- One example of such an integrated emergency
- communications program is illustrated by the publication "State
- of California Governors Office of Emergency Services Emergency
- Communications Reserve, the Auxiliary Communications Service".
- How it is implemented and designed is set forth in the 1994 plan
- of the same title distributed to California counties and State
- and Federal agencies without charge. Others may request a copy
- with a $11 check payable to the State of California. Mail to
- Office of Emergency Services, ACS Program, Telecommunications
- Branch, 2800 Meadowview Rd, Sacramento, Ca 95832. For more
- information call or write: Stan Harter or Cary Mangum
- 916-262-1600.
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