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LAFD's
Auxiliary Communications Service
LA's HAMs aim to keep us informed during an emergency
by Don Farkas
Thanks to my sample Casiano
Bel Air Community Emergency Plan Summary appearing on the
LACP website, I was contacted by Monte Gordon of the Auxiliary Communications
Service (ACS).
The LA Fire Department's ACS program is an important volunteer organization,
of which I had previously been unaware, that may be used to support
emergency communications in our communities in the event telephone
service ever becomes interrupted as a result of a disaster.
The members of the ACS are licensed radio amateur operators (Ham
Radio Operators) who help protect the City of Los Angeles by working
as an integral part of the Los Angeles Fire Dept.'s communications
infrastructure. ACS has a website that can be viewed at www.lafd.org/acs.htm
Mr. Gordon wrote the following, as an introduction to the Auxiliary
Communications Service:
Los
Angeles Fire Dept.
Auxiliary Communications Service [ACS]
ACS is an organization of licensed radio amateurs (Ham Radio
Operators) who have been trained by the Los Angeles Fire Department
to support communications between LAFD division and battalion
houses as well as LA's Emergency Operations Center.
I am soliciting fellow Beverly Glen Park Hams [and persons interested
in becoming licenced] as well as Glenridge, Casiano Bel-Air
and other hillside community residents to consider applying
for membership in ACS.
Our work is educational and of particular interest to residents
of our communities because of potential natural disasters in
our limited access areas as well as preparation for possible
events of terrorism.
Because of interaction with LAFD personnel at fire stations
and sponsored activities, we are uniformed and display unique
photo identification.
In addition, we interface with CERT,
the Community Emergency Response Team which functions within
the LAFD umbrella.
You are invited to view our website, www.lafd.org/acs.htm,
and monitor our weekly net.
In any event, please make yourself known as an amateur radio
operator or CERT member to me at msgordon76@aol.com
or by my business phone, 310/306-7889.
I look forward to hearing from you!
Monte Gordon
Auxiliary Communications Service (ACS) |
Please get
involved with either of these two important LA Fire Department volunteer
programs. Your participation could mean all the difference in the
event of an emergency:
ACS
- Auxiliary
Communications Service
CERT - Community
Emergency Response Team
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