[SixClub] FEMA

[Howard Bingham]

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
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>73, and lets hope it's training you will never need.
>Tom
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