[SixClub] FEMA

[Pastor Bradt]

It seems I used my office email as opposed to my personal email.  Oops!

Rev. Lawrence N. Bradt, pastor
Holy Cross Evangelical Lutheran Church
200 Market St.
Ste. Genevieve MO 63670
(573)883-5361
hclcstegen at sbcglobal.net
pastorbradt at sbcglobal.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Holy Cross [mailto:hclcstegen at sbcglobal.net] 
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 11:43 AM
To: 'World Wide Six Meter Club'
Subject: RE: [SixClub] FEMA


If you work regularly with your county EOC and Emergency Management Office,
it would behoove you to consider taking the suggested courses.  Much of the
grant money available for County level EM and EOC operations is based on the
number of staff and volunteers that have been trained in the Incident
Command System.  We are hoping that this will help provide funding for a
full HAM station for our EOC and other locations through out the county.

If we HAMs are to be of service to our local communities in an emergency,
training in the Incident Command System is imperative and necessary.  They
will not use you if you can't work knowledgably within that system.  This
program is designed to provide seamless integration of ALL emergency workers
into one smooth working operation.  As Ham operators we should be part of
that team.  ARES and RACES strongly encourage taking these classes and I
encourage you to do so as well.  Let's be a help in a time of need and not a
hindrance.



Rev. Lawrence N. Bradt, KC5QWO
Ste. Genevieve County - EM47xx
Asst. EC - SKYWARN
pastorbradt at sbcglobal.net


-----Original Message-----
From: Howard Bingham [mailto:howardb at hal-pc.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 3:12 AM
To: tom at galesvillefiredepartment.org; World Wide Six Meter Club
Subject: Re: [SixClub] FEMA

Personally, this appears to be more of a course that first responders 
would be required to take, rather than the Emergency Communications 
course the ARRL has for hams..

Seems like quite a few items other than radio communications are 
included & that it is quite similar to "volunteer" training by the 
CERT (Citizens Emergency Response Team) courses that are offered on 
the county level of government.

Howard Bingham
KE5APJ

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At 10:37 PM 5/30/2006, tom at galesvillefiredepartment.org wrote:
>I don't know about your situation in particular, but as far as the 
>local FD here, we are now required to have IS-100, -200, and 
>-700.  This is in order for our department to be eligible for 
>federal grant money.  In any event, all three courses are fairly 
>simple and don't take a lot of time to complete.  Any amateur radio 
>ops that intend to be part of the soloution when it comes time to 
>mitigate a disaster should be familiar with NIMS and ICS 
>beforehand.  If you wish to have a link to each of these courses, 
>please visit http://www.galesvillefiredepartment.org/fema.html and 
>for a list of all FEMA courses online, visit 
>http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/crslist.asp
>
>
>73, and lets hope it's training you will never need.
>Tom
>KC9ECI
>SKCC 1
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>ECI-QRP 028
>NAQCC 500
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>exponebantur ad necem.
>
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