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- Subject : #340 Solve the Impossible 2/2
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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, 916-262-1657 (Open
- to all). Internet crm@oes.ca.gov or seh@oes.ca.gov
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- BULLETIN 340 MGT: Solving the Impossible 2/2
- Release Date: August 22, l994
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- Emergency services administrators not yet using volunteer
- communicators may well wonder if such dedicated and reliable
- volunteers actually exist. They do, although they may not
- necessarily be the first group that comes to mind. In many parts
- of the country such people have been found and selected carefully
- from a pool of applicants, and then trained and employed for many
- years. The key elements are: selected with care and trained and
- employed for years.
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- While only a small percentage of the potential emergency
- communications reserve participants will have the dedication and
- meet the requirements to become truly professional emergency
- communicators, there usually are sufficient numbers. Once
- selected, organized and trained, they can become largely
- self-sustaining so long as the agency remembers to keep them
- actively involved in the day-to-day life of the agency.
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- That is, in itself, one of the essential actions that separates
- outstanding results from the mediocre for the agency. It is a
- process that is far easier to implement than to describe.
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- The effort required to establish a communications reserve
- assuredly will pay off. Check into the services that have dealt
- with recent disasters, such as the hurricanes in South Florida
- and Hawaii, earthquakes and fires in Southern California, floods
- in the Midwest. Volunteer communicators were indispensable in all
- of them.
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- Need help in finding such personnel? Help IS available to the
- agency that asks for it. Call Stan Harter or Cary Mangum
- 916-262-1600
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- s/s Bill Musladin
- CA State Office of Emergency Services
- Retired Chief State Radio Officer
- EOM
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