VOLUNTEERS  IN  EMERGENCY  MANAGEMENT

PREPAREDNESS BEGINS AT HOME
and in the neighborhood

    Four training classes are available through our Emergency Mangement Division. The Getting Ready training is a six hour course and the CERT Training (Community Emergency Response Team) is a twenty hour course.

   If you are a retired medical professional and would like to become involved in the Medical Reserve Corps,you can sign up by clicking on this link:

 www.kitsapdem.org/default.asp?ID=162

   You can participate as an active volunteer or just register in advance of an emergency so that you will be immediately available to serve in case you are needed to be deployed in Clallam County.

   The newest course offered is MYN or Map Your Neighborhood which is a ninety minute class organizing neighborhoods to respond in the first hour of a disaster when lives can be saved by quick action.  Courses are taught in your neighborhood and we supply the trainer and materials.

   Since this program was launched in June of 2007, more than 700 citizens have been trained and know what to do immediately to assist their neighbors.

   Because of our geographic isolation, it is important to organize our neighbor-
hoods into a small response team structure and teach our citizens how to be prepared for any disaster. By doing do, we directly strengthen our neighborhood resources and support the community.

   Contact Emergency Management to receive more information and to schedule an event for your neighborhood by phoning 360.417.2483.

BECOME AN AMATEUR RADIO OPERATOR!!

Clallam County ARES/RACES meets on the first Tuesday evening of each month at 7 p.m. in the Emergency Operations Center (basement level of courthouse), 223 E 4th Street, Port Angeles, WA. 

To learn more about amateur radio  operations, or to become an active volunteer with the ARES emergency radio operators click on the ARES / RACES navigation button on our Emergency Management home page or call Chuck Jones @ 360.452.4672 or Tom Newcomb @ 452.8228 for details on the upcoming Ham classes.

The next series of Technician classes (First Level) will be held on April 12, 19, & 26, 2008.  The next set of classes will be September 13, 20, & 27, 2008.  Hours on all classes are 0845-1700. Classes are held at the Port Angeles Fire Department Building.

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All classes held at:
Port Angeles Fire Department
102 E 5th Street
Port Angeles, WA
 

PREPAREDNESS IDEA! 
How about putting a "ham shack" in your community center? 

updated January 30, 2008