Tour of New Emergency Interoperational Communications Vehicl

[PanJurekMrJerry]

:arrow: From: "JERRY NONE" <thepolishdude@yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:30:14 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Ohio_MARCS] Re: [NEOhioScanner] Tour of New Emergency Interoperational Communications Vehicle


I have included a link that includes a map of the
Brecksville Reservation. Oak Grove is Number 5
on the map.

----J E R R Y

http://www.clemetparks.com/visit/index.asp?action=rdetails&reservations_id=1006

--- scannear <jackandrisin@tmail.com> wrote:

> I have arranged with Eric Bartholomew, KF8YK of the
> Geauga County
> EMA, for their brand new Emergency Interoperations
> Communucations
> Vehicle to come to Cuyahoga County for a tour.
>
> This will happen on Wed evening August 17, 2005,
> before the meeting
> of the Cuyahoga Amateur Radio Society (CARS). The
> vehicle will be at
> the Oak Grove Picnic pavilion in the Brecksville
> Reservation of the
> Cuyahoga County Metroparks from 5:30 to 7pm. All
> NEOhioScanner Yahoo
> Group members, and Yahoo Scanner Group members from
> surrounding
> counties, as well as CARS members, are invited to
> tour the vehicle.
>
> You may have seen this vehicle featured on the local
> TV news. This
> is your chance to see this vehicle in person and
> have Eric KF8YK
> answer your questions on the communications
> equipment.
>
> See below for more info:
>
---------------------------------------------------------
>
> NEW TOOL FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT WILL IMPROVE
> COMMUNICATION
> AND RESPONSE CAPABILITIES DURING MAJOR EMERGENCIES
>
> The interoperability vehicle is equipped with
> state-of-the art
> communications equipment and technology for first
> responders to
> include law enforcement officials. This
> vehicle,which will be
> stationed in Geauga County, will serve a six county
> region,
> in northeast Ohio, in the event of a major disaster
> or terrorist
> attack. Counties within this region include
> Cuyahoga, Summit,
> Portage, Trumbull,Ashtabula and Lake. This vehicle
> is being paid for
> by federal homeland security funding.
>
> Background: The Ohio Emergency Management Agency and
> the Buckeye
> State Sheriff's Association are managing this
> program, which will
> vastly improve the communication and response
> abilities of law
> enforcement, fire and emergency medical personnel
> during a large-
> scale emergency situation. The program involving the
> communications
> vehicles, along with a data-sharing program being
> led by the Ohio
> Association of Chiefs of Police, comprise the Law
> Enforcement
> Terrorism Prevention Program.
> -------------------------------------
>
> I would like to thank Eric Bartholemew of the Geauga
> County EMA for
> arranging to have us view the vehicle.
>
> Jack W8JAK
> ==============

 

[mciupa]

Sounds cool 8)
Darn it, I was just in Independence, Ohio during the week of July 11
I would have loved to take a look since I was in the neighbourhood.
It's a five hundred mile drive for me to return.
I guess I'll have to check out the local news on the 'net when it arrives.