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- Bid : $RACESBUL.249
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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: AUXILIARY RADIO SERVICE
- CA STATE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES (W6HIR @ WA6NWE.CA)
- 2800 Meadowview Rd., Sacramento, CA 95832 (916)262-1603
- Landline BBS (FIDO) open to all: (916) 262-1657
- RACESBUL.249 DATE: Nov. 23, 1992
- SUBJECT: MGT - Why not multiple RACES membership?
-
- QUESTION: Why can't I have multiple RACES membership? In
- other words, why shouldn't I belong to two or more different RACES?
- REPLY: One of the most common complaints from emergency
- management officials is that some volunteers are enrolled with a
- county civil defense or emergency services agency and also enrolled
- in a comparable city agency. In an emergency callout the county
- and the city government may find that the volunteers they each
- thought they had are one and the same. It understandably upsets
- the government officials so affected to be told by these volunteers,
- "Sorry, I have just been called out by someone else." This may
- cause governments to say, "Make up your mind. It's one or the other.
- Please return your ID card to all but the one you choose to serve and
- be counted upon." In other words it's like being a reserve deputy
- sheriff or volunteer firefighter --- you can be one in only one
- department. We feel it's the same with deputy communicators --
- be it called the RACES, the Auxiliary Radio Service, or whatever.
- Volunteers and paid responders in California work within a
- highly developed mutual aid system. This enables properly trained
- and registered volunteers to serve wherever they are needed. Please
- understand this: it does not reduce the opportunities to serve and
- respond by being registered in just one government. We realize that
- many states and counties do not employ this mutual aid concept, so
- these comments reflect the practices of and recommendations for
- those that do.
-
- EOF
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