Promoting Disaster Preparedness & Resiliency

The American Red Cross Monterey Bay Shelter Functional Exercise / MoCo ARES SET

Event Details

Time: November 14, 2009 from 8:30am to 12pm
Location: Hollister shelter TBD
City/Town: Hollister
Event Type: red, cross, and, ares, readiness, exercise, test
Organized By: Tim Takeuchi/Bob Spencer/Dave Burbidge
Latest Activity: Nov 6, 2009

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Event Description

The Hollister, Salinas and Carmel ARC offices will combine personnel to conduct the annual ARC Shelter Functional Exercise using a realistic disaster event scenario, actual shelter clients to process at a ARC shelter, ARC and San Benito County Amateur Radio Emergency Services (ARES) frequencies (auxiliary communications) will be used, because the land line and cell phone service (simulated) will be non-operational. Simultaneously the Monterey County Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL) ARES operator's will be conducting their annual Simulated Emergency Test (SET) staffing up as many served agencies as possible. Exercise logistics messages will be exchanged from San Benito to Monterey County and possibly to San Cruz County utilizing ARRL Radogram protocol.

Bob Spencer/W6HMC
Monterey County Operational Area
Office of Emergency Services / W6UCS
Auxiliary Communications Support Officer