[Mldxcc] FW: Northern California Fires

[Richard (Rick) Karlquist]

This might be an opportunity to provide such as service.
I suggest you forward this to ARRL officials and see
what they can do.

Rick N6RK

Richard Hill wrote:
> Good morning, I'm forwarding the email below hoping someone in the club can
> provide better information than I would.  My guess is that it would be very
> difficult to reach an individual firefighter.  I understand that we do not
> provide an equivalent to a commercial service,  I'm not aware of a program
> that provides "humanitarian" service to firefighters to provide a link back
> home during their resting time.
> 
> Any comments before I respond?
> 
> Rich
> NU6T
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lawrence, Tom [mailto:Thomas.Lawrence at cda.canon.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:35 PM
> To: REHill at ix.netcom.com
> Subject: Northern California Fires
> 
> 
> Rich,
> 
> 
> 
> My name is Tom Lawrence and I'm a newly licensed Ham operator.  I got your
> name from the Mother Lode DX & Contest Club website (which I found at the
> ARRL website).  My son is a firefighter with the US Forest Service currently
> deployed on the North Mountain fire in Stanislaus National Forest.  The fire
> camp is outside cell phone range.  Does your club or do Ham operators in
> general provide communication services for fire crews' personal
> communications in situations like this?  Being new to amateur radio and not
> a member of any club, I'm curious if this is something you do.  Any guidance
> or direction you can provide would be greatly appreciated.  In any case,
> thank you for taking the time to read this.
> 
> 
> 
> Tom Lawrence
> 
> K6TDL
> 
> 
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