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- Msgid: $RACESBUL.225
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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.225 DATE: June 8, 1992
- SUBJECT: MGT: Activation of a RACES unit. Part 1/3
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- Justifiably, agency officials react with strident alarm if RACES
- people are called out without jurisdictional authority, or if
- non-RACES operators (for example, ARES-only members not co-
- registered in a RACES unit) are called out in a RACES situation.
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- Of even deeper concern by agency officials is the Radio Officer
- who can't discern one from the other, and confuses the call-up,
- causing embarrassment to an official or the jurisdiction; exceed-
- ing authority or creating liability problems for administrators.
- Once 'burned', such officials can become reluctant or refuse to
- utilize the unit again.
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- RACES activation is based on specified authority of the local
- jurisdiction. This should be spelled out in a written RACES plan
- for each jurisdiction. The Radio Officer should ascertain that
- the plan is active, current and approved, as well as reading the
- activation language provisions. A time-tested RACES plan is the
- model Santa Luisa Plan. Sending a draft of your plan to State
- OES HQ for review, prior to filing the final signed-off plan,
- helps assure that the activation authority is clear and concise.
- (To be continued)
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- EOM
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