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- From : W6HIR @ WA6NWE.#NOCAL.CA.USA
- To : RACES @ ALLUS
- Msgid : $RACESBUL.169
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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.169 DATE: May 13, 1991
- SUBJECT: "Falling Overboard" Part 1/5
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- by: Lois Clark McCoy, WB6MME
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- My awareness of emergencies and disaster began at a very early
- age. I was born and brought up on an ocean-going 42 foot yawl and
- never lived ashore until I was eight years old. During those
- years my father taught my sister and me about emergencies and how
- to avoid disaster. Emergencies at sea were expected and prepared
- for. Disaster was to be avoided at all costs. As he said, "You
- only get to fall overboard once."
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- What's the difference between emergency and disaster? An emer-
- gency is when the resources available are inadequate to contain
- and recover from an event, but, in time of disaster, the American
- citizen volunteers to fill that shortfall in resources. The
- American tradition of volunteerism is one of a community's
- greatest strengths; the Amateur Radio family has a long history
- of disaster and emergency service.
-
- (To be continued)
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- EOM
-