{"id":394,"date":"2006-06-26T08:51:42","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T12:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/?p=394"},"modified":"2006-06-26T08:51:42","modified_gmt":"2006-06-26T12:51:42","slug":"from-the-ares-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"From the ARES newsletter&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KC8WOL<\/strong> posted this &#8220;Letter to the Editor&#8221; in the <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.hamsexy.com\">Hamsexy Forums<\/a>, and I felt it bore re-posting here. Apparantly ARES itself is starting to realize how pointless and redundant they are  in an actual disaster scenario.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n+ LETTERS: HTs, BUT NO HELMETS <\/p>\n<p>Brevard County, Florida &#8212; During a recent county disaster drill,<br \/>\nresponders were expected to arrive on the scene ready for deployment.<br \/>\nFire responders showed up in full fire gear, Police in full police<br \/>\ngear, CERT members with appropriate gear including helmet, orange<br \/>\nsafety vest, long pants, shirt, heavy shoes, gloves, face mask,<br \/>\nflashlight, as well as HT, and necessary tools. Our ARES members<br \/>\nshowed up only with their HT, with some in shorts, sandals, no head<br \/>\ngear nor uniform\/identification of any kind. <\/p>\n<p>ARES responders need to meet the same equipment standards as Fire,<br \/>\nPolice and CERT personnel. Had ARES members attending our mock drill<br \/>\narrived and reported for an actual event, they wouldn&#8217;t have been<br \/>\ndeemed prepared and likely would be sent to NIMS-IC &#8220;camp&#8221; for<br \/>\ntraining. ARES\/ARRL needs to develop gear standards. ARES personnel<br \/>\nneed to arrive on the emergency site ready to be deployed. Prepared<br \/>\nfor deployment means ARES members having more than the clothing on<br \/>\ntheir backs and an HT (with only one set of batteries) in their<br \/>\nhand!&#8211;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is your ARES group as bad as this one? Does your group have a clue on how to act and &#8216;get it right&#8217;? Let us know. We here at Hamsexy want to feature ARES groups that <strong>GET IT RIGHT<\/strong>. Please send us a report and photos of your local ARES group &#8211; convince us that there <i>are<\/i> some ARES groups out there that are in it for more than flashy lights and ham badges. Send your submissions to submissions@hamsexy.com and we&#8217;ll get them up on the site!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KC8WOL posted this &#8220;Letter to the Editor&#8221; in the Hamsexy Forums, and I felt it bore re-posting here. Apparantly ARES itself is starting to realize how pointless and redundant they are in an actual disaster scenario. + LETTERS: HTs, BUT &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/?p=394\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hamsexyness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}