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PINELLAS COUNTY FLORIDA
AUXILIARY COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE (ACS)

ACS


PINELLAS COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

Sally Bishop, Director Emergency Management

David MacNamee, Emergency Management – Operations Manager

Robert Homan, Emergency Management Senior Coordinator

PINELLAS COUNTY ACS STAFF

Neil Lauritsen, W4NHL, ACS Radio Officer(RO)/ARES Emergency Coordinator (EC)

William Reese, KK4XI, Deputy Radio Officer/Dep. EC

Demos Doulou, KR4US, Dep. RO - Repeater Trustee/DEP. EC

Bruce Roggenkamp, WD9FMI, Dep. RO - Administrative Asst.

Bruce Kreutzer, KI4CPZ Dep. RO - EOC Shift One Supervisor/AEC

Jeff Palmer, NE4C, Dep. RO - EOC Shift Two Supervisor/AEC

Richard Pomeroy, WD4SCD, - Logistics Officer/AEC

Doug Williams, N2DW - Government Liaison/Shelter Coordinator/AEC

Kevin Poorman, KV4CT - Public Information Officer (PIO)/AEC


New ACS Members needed. To find out how to join Contact Neil, W4NHL at 727-643-1670 or send e-mail to w4nhl@pcacs.org

ACS Mission

General:

The ACS mission is to serve its sponsoring governmental jurisdiction in support of any possible need
relative to communications in an emergency. This means far more than being activated in sporadic
emergencies. It includes day-to-day involvement in the affairs of that agency. In effect, ACS
becomes an integrated aspect of the sponsoring agency staff, albeit unpaid.

Specific:

For Pinellas County, the ACS unit of the Department of Emergency Management (DEM) provides a
variety of professional unpaid (volunteer) skills, including administrative, technical and operational,
for emergency tactical, administrative and logistical communications between the State and its
agencies, its Regions, county and city governments and neighboring state governments.

Specific mission assignments include on-going ACS bulletins, assistance to counties and cities in
developing ACS units in their jurisdictions; and coordination with other State agency ACS units once
they are formed, and support of the State Emergency Operations Center.
The Pinellas County ACS Unit provides, supplements, or augments Government communications
during emergencies where normal communication systems have sustained damaged, are being over
taxed or over-burdened, or backup radio operators are required. ACS may be used in a wide variety
of situations, including but not limited to:



2010 DHS/FEMA & FLEOC TRAINING REQUIREMENTS FOR ACS(RACES) and
ARES MEMBERS


Download "Training Requirements for ACS and ARES Members

This are the Basic Training Requirements for ALL ARES and ACS Personnel:

ARRL EC-001 Level 1 Basic - Amateur Radio Emergency Communications
FEMA - IS-100 Introduction to Incident Command System
FEMA - IS 200 ICS for Single Resources and Initial Action
FEMA - NIMS IS-700 National Incident Management System (NIMS) An
Introduction.
FEMA - IS-802 Emergency Support Function 2 Operators (ESF-2)




Pinellas EOC Radio Room

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PINELLAS COUNTY ACS RADIO ROOM PICTURES


ACS NEWS


Florida Shelter Status
http://www.eoconline.org/EM_Live/shelter.nsf

Florida Road Status
http://www.eoconline.org/EM_Live/roadstat.nsf

Please consider volunteering to be an ACS Unit Member. We Only recruit enough members to meet the needs of
the Local City and County facilities for whom we provide communicators. There are some nice priviledges for
being a Pinellas County Volunteer.

  • Qualifications: Be at least 18 Years Old.
  • Preferably licensed either as an Amateur Radio Operator, a MARS Operator, a CAP Member, but
    non-licensed civilians are also encouraged to Join.
  • Completion of the 2 hour Pinellas County Volunteer Orientation Class.


    To Join Please Download the County Volunteer Application ( .PDF Format)



    Please send your Pinellas County Volunteer Application to w4nhl.1@gmail.comNeil Lauritsen, W4NHL

    or Mail it to Pinellas County Emergency Management at 400 S. Ft. Harrison St. Suite 111 Clearwater, FL 33756

    You also need to register for the Pinellas Co. ACS Using the aresdb.ab2m.net database and sign up for Pinellas ACS Registration Only Click Here.


    THE PINELLAS COUNTY ACS/ARES/SKYWARN Net Protocol(.doc format)


    ACS Manhours Report
     



    Expand your ham radio horizons!
    View ARRL's complete list of Technical and Emergency Communication
    online courses at http://www.arrl.org/courses-training/

    [Volunteer Service]

    PINELLAS COUNTY VOLUNTEER SERVICE

    [Partners in Service Award]

    ACS - PINELLAS COUNTY PARTNERS IN SERVICE AWARD- 2005


    FOR MORE INFO Contact
    Neil Lauritsen
    w4nhl.1@gmail.com

     

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    Copyright; September 26, 1996 Neil Lauritsen
    This Page was created on Saturday, January 20, 1996
    Most recent revision June 02, 2010