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BID : $RACESBUL.261
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
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.
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.
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.
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)