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- TO: ALL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES VIA AMATEUR RADIO
- 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)262-1600
- Landline BBS open to all: (916) 262-1657
- RACESBUL.261 DATE: Feb. 15, 1993
- SUBJECT: MGT - Volunteers - Part 1/3
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- Some of the recent Bulletins, coupled with reports from the
- recent hurricane activities, have prompted a considerable increase in
- comments and feedback. This is healthy and informative.
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- A few messages felt no one should count on volunteers showing
- up. Others said, "You have to pay people to do what you expect!" Not so
- on both counts.
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- There have been several messages on both the Amateur Radio
- and Civil Air Patrol packet systems about jump teams -- people and
- equipment who can respond some distance to serve for an indefinite
- period. Boy, am I happy to see this! It means that more people are
- recognizing what is needed and what can be done. Here, we call it
- Mutual Aid and the responders strike teams. This has been going on in
- some Western states for decades. We're talking about requested and
- authorized responders, of course, never self-dispatched resources.
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- Please keep in mind that my comments are confined to
- volunteers in government service. Definitely not the come-if-I-feel-
- like-it or the come-out-if-the-situation-is-really-bad individuals.
- Sure, there's a place for those people but not in government public
- safety communications such as the RACES, CAP and the like.
-
- (To be continued in Part 2 of 3 parts)
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