“Go Bag” Presentation from 2016 BCC Preparedness Expo

The first annual “Bonner County Citizens Preparedness Expo” at the Bonner County Fairgrounds was held as a free all-day workshop with talks, displays and vendors. The slides for the “Go Bag” talk are attached here, to provide the contents list, resource links and prime objective of Go Bag (which also goes by the names Jump Kit, Bug-out Bag, Get Home Bag, and 72-Hour Kit).

For the purpose of this talk, a Go Bag’s purpose is “to keep you effective and functioning immediately after crisis onset — the first 24 hours — and surviving for at least three days. This kit is to sustain YOU while you get to a safer place or wherever you need to be.”

Click the following link to download/open the PDF file:

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2016 Annual Idaho ARES Fall SET: Scavenger Hunt on Oct. 15th

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The Annual Idaho Fall SET will be October 15 from 1400 to 2100 Z.

Exercise Activity: Scavenger Hunt

In an actual emcomm event, pretty much all ARES operators will be part of a team/net. This exercise is intended to also be a TEAM event. Each county team should have one HF station to talk to the simulated Idaho EOC (in Latah County) and one or more mobile stations available to go scavenge information from the community. Continue reading “2016 Annual Idaho ARES Fall SET: Scavenger Hunt on Oct. 15th”

FEMA & ARRL Announce Disaster Communication Partnership

Release date:  July 18, 2014
Release Number:  HQ-2014-51

Hartford, Conn. – Today, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) announced a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) that increases cooperation between FEMA and ARRL in the area of disaster communication.  FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, KK4INZ, and ARRL President Kay Craigie, N3KN, signed the agreement during the ARRL National Centennial Convention at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, Connecticut.

This agreement will allow FEMA and ARRL to work together to provide resources, services and personnel, as available, in order to  Continue reading “FEMA & ARRL Announce Disaster Communication Partnership”