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| Members of W7VMI provide communications during Island emergencies, disasters, and drills through the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) and the Auxiliary Communication Service (ACS). Communications services are provided to other Island emergency preparedness organizations, including the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), Neighborhood Emergency Response Organizations (NERO), and the Emergency Operations Center (EOC). Services include providing field radio operators to deploy with teams, maintaining and manning the EOC radio room, and providing the Club radio trailer as a communications hub and command post during larger deployments. | Members of W7VMI provide communications during Island emergencies, disasters, and drills through the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) and the Auxiliary Communication Service (ACS). Communications services are provided to other Island emergency preparedness organizations, including the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), Neighborhood Emergency Response Organizations (NERO), and the Emergency Operations Center (EOC). Services include providing field radio operators to deploy with teams, maintaining and manning the EOC radio room, and providing the Club radio trailer as a communications hub and command post during larger deployments. | ||
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| + | If you would like to get involved with emergency communications, you can email the leaders of the club ACS committee at ACS@vashonbeprepared.org. | ||
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| ===== The EOC ===== | ===== The EOC ===== | ||
| We are lucky to have a strong partnership with [[http://www.vifr.org/ | Vashon Fire and Rescue]] and [[http://vashonbeprepared.org/ | VashonBePrepared ]]. | We are lucky to have a strong partnership with [[http://www.vifr.org/ | Vashon Fire and Rescue]] and [[http://vashonbeprepared.org/ | VashonBePrepared ]]. | ||
| - | We maintain a radio room at the [[http://vashonbeprepared.org/Partners/EOC.aspx |Vashon EOC ]] inside the Main Firestation, Station 55, located at 10020 SW BANK RD. We conduct periodic drills and training events using the radio room in an effort to stay prepared in the event of a real emergency. We have HF/UHF/VHF/CB/Marine capability as well as[[http://www.winlink.org/ | Winlink]] and Internet from this location, and use these communications resources both to talk to field teams and other Island fire stations, as well as to communicate with the County, State, and other EOCs in the region. The site is backed up by a generator. | + | We maintain a radio room at the [[http://vashonbeprepared.org/Partners/EOC.aspx |Vashon EOC ]] inside the Penny Farcy Memorial Training Center, across from the Main Firestation, Station 55, and located at 10019 SW BANK RD. We conduct periodic drills and training events using the radio room in an effort to stay prepared in the event of a real emergency. We have HF/UHF/VHF/CB/Marine capability as well as[[http://www.winlink.org/ | Winlink]] and Internet from this location, and use these communications resources both to talk to field teams and other Island fire stations, as well as to communicate with the County, State, and other EOCs in the region. The site is backed up by a generator. |
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