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- Msgid : $RACESBUL.201
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- TO: ALL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES/OFFICES VIA THE ARS INFO: ALL
- RACES OPERATORS IN CA (ALLCA: OFFICIAL)
- ALL AMATEURS U.S. (@ USA: INFORMATION)
- FROM: CA STATE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES (W6HIR @ WA6NWE.CA)
- 2800 Meadowview Rd., Sacramento, CA 95832 (916)427-4281
- RACESBUL.201 DATE: Dec. 23, 1991
- SUBJECT: Management: Mutual Aid
- Question: You talk about mutual aid. We don't have that
- here. What does it mean?
- Answer: Mutual aid comes from planning between
- municipalities, counties or parishes, and states to provide
- emergency resources from other governments if and when required.
- Mutual aid in this context goes beyond automatic response by one
- fire department to support another department near their mutual
- borders. In California, mutual aid is provided for by law and
- is one of the responsibilities of local government emergency
- management/civil defense, law enforcement, and fire fighting
- agencies to plan for and implement mutual aid. Communications,
- too, is a resource necessary to any incident command system.
- Volunteers are -- or can be -- a part of this mutual aid
- resource. The Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES), or
- by whatever name your government calls their Amateur Radio
- section, is a part of a government's communications resource.
- The mutual aid system, properly planned, can be an excellent and
- cost effective system. The absence of mutual aid can contribute
- to the needless loss of life and property. The volunteers, of
- course, should be covered by the same benefits and protection
- provided paid employees. --- Stan Harter, KH6GBX
-
- EOF
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