ARRLWeb: Michigan Hams Activated Due to Storms and Tornado

This is why our CERT team now has 5 new HAM radio operators and an additonal outside the park HAM. The LVH CERT plan continues to evolve with 4 new volunteers to take the CERT training in September.. Wayde and Barb Dudley and Tom and Jeanine Roiterer. Please think about taking this valuable training and joining our team. A finer bunch of people concerned about your welfare you will not find anywhere.. RT

ARRLWeb: Michigan Hams Activated Due to Storms and Tornado: "As the county's fire departments started to move toward the building collapse in Fenton, hams were already on the scene. Bond and Mike Schafer, KB8RVP, shifted gears from weather spotters to Fire Coordination operators. At the request of the fire chief at the scene, Bond went to the Fenton City fire station and, using ham radio, assisted their dispatch center; the storm had damaged their radio fire communications tower, so Bond and Schafer started working dispatch for them using their ham radios until the dispatch center was able to resume normal fire communications. Jerry Baker, KD8AYL, was next to arrive on the scene at the collapsed building and after meeting with the Incident Commander, Baker was assigned the task to set up radio communications with more ARES volunteers in the Flint region. As more reports of damage came in, the Fenton City and Township Fire Department became overloaded; their crippled communications tower did not help matters. ARES Emergency Coordinator for Genesee County Greg Ybarra, N8HXQ, coordinated the response during this incident and put out a call for help to District 3 Emergency Coordinator Greg Allinger, WA8OGJ. Allinger contacted other ARES units in the state, and Amateur Radio operators from nine Michigan counties responded to the Fenton area to help."