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Placer County ARES®
MISSION STATEMENT
To develop and maintain an appropriately trained pool of Amateur Radio operators who are available and qualified to provide situational awareness, auxiliary emergency communication, public service, health and welfare and emergency communications support to any incident response agency requiring those services and to the people of Placer County and the State of California in times of need.
ARRL® & ARES® Vision Statement
The Amateur Radio Emergency Service, a program of the ARRL®, offers to the public and to its partners at all levels trained Amateur Radio Service licensees who are skilled in the use of a wide range of emergency and disaster communications techniques and who are committed to supporting our partners’ missions in service to the public.
ARRL® & ARES® Mission Statement
The Amateur Radio Emergency Service® (ARES®), a program of ARRL®, the national association for Amateur Radio, is comprised of organized, trained, and identified Amateur Radio operators who augment and support vital communications on behalf of the public through partner agencies and organizations during emergencies and disasters. The Amateur Radio Emergency Service, through its volunteer radio communicators, strives to be an effective partner in emergency and disaster response, providing the citizenry and public service partners at all levels with radio communications expertise, and capabilities of professional communicators.
ARRL® & PCARES Values
RELEVANT: ARES® is the When All Else Fails...…and before®
LEADERSHIP: ARES® leverages the strength of it ARRL® members-volunteers and the leader within it organizational structure to create and nurture professional-level relationship with community, government, and other partners in emergency management.
RESOURCEFUL: ARES® strives to be an invaluable tool that communities and first responders can call upon in time of need for reliable and robust communications.
INNOVATIVE: ARES® adopts state-of-the-art capabilities for deployment, setup, and operation of world-class, resilient communication from operations centers to field locations.
SKILLED: ARES® volunteers will have access to leading training courses in radio communication and related technologies to support wide-ranging emergency scenarios.
EQUIPPED: ARES® provides robust, multi-spectrum, analog and digital communication as well as networking assets to its trained forces of volunteers, regardless of location, for in-person, mobile, and fixed capabilities.
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