MONTGOMERY COUNTY PA. ARES / RACES-A.C.S
PENNSYLVANIA AUXILIARY COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES

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Announcements:

Next MCAR meeting:

May 12th at 9am at the Montgomery county Emergency Operations Center 50 Eagleville Rd. Eagleville, PA

Topics: Presentation TBD, Field Day information

Skywarn Training: Saturday, June 16, 2012 starting at 10AM. Plans are to do both Basic and Advanced sessions in the same day. These sessions will be presented by Greg Heavener from the Mount Holly NWS office.

First class at 10am followed by the advanced class at 1pm

Facebook page for Montgomery County Skywarn:.

The address for the page is long, but, if we get a few more people to "like" the page, we can simplify that. The current address is http://www.facebook.com/pages/Skywarn-Montgomery-County-PA/323936654320084 .

If you are on Facebook, please go to that address and click the "like" button.

Field Day: June 23rd and 24th

Interested in becoming a member of Montgomery County ARES/RACES-ACS? Click here for more info!

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Our Mission:

     Our MISSION is to provide Montgomery County Emergency Operations and Montgomery County Local Government with backup
     communications staffed by highly trained professionals that are highly capable of providing well-coordinated Volunteer Auxiliary
     Communications Services through training, education, technology, vision, administration and response to assist Montgomery County
     in keeping Montgomery County Residents safe, and to recovery from critical incidents.

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Profile:

Montgomery County ARES/RACES-A.C.S. is a wholly volunteer group with membership of approximately 120+ members strong.

As a Volunteer Group we meet weekly for Practice Drills, monthly Training Meetings, and many have gone through FEMA and PEMA
Training. Located directly inside the Montgomery County Emergency Operations and directly with the Incident Command Post.

Many members have 20+ years experience serving Montgomery County Emergency Operations providing Volunteer Backup Communications.

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Contact Information

     If you are a Montgomery County, Montgomery County Local Government, Hospital, Ambulance Corps, EMS, Fire Company we can
     be contacted via Knowledge Center under ACS - RACES. All others outside the county, please use the following phone numbers for
     contact or contact Montgomery County Emergency Operations on-duty officer as all requests must be approved by Montgomery County
     EOC to deploy our group.
     If you are in need of a Communications Team to handle your communications needs for a planned event inside or outside Montgomery
     County, please contact Doug Priest or Bob Griffith via email.

Telephone: 610-631-6500
FAX: 610-631-6536
Postal address: Department of Public Safety, 50 Eagleville Road, Eagleville, PA 19403.
Electronic mail: General Information: info@aa3e.org
Webmaster: webmaster@aa3e.org

MONTGOMERY COUNTY PA. ARES / RACES-A.C.S PENNSYLVANIA AUXILIARY COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES