{"id":514,"date":"2015-01-13T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polkares.org\/?page_id=514"},"modified":"2020-12-07T02:19:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T02:19:21","slug":"shelter-info","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/polkares.org\/?page_id=514","title":{"rendered":"Shelter Operator Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Calling all Shelter Operators<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shelter radio operators are needed for different events, mostly weather related.\u00a0 Our main concern is hurricane season.\u00a0 Polk County is one of the primary evacuation sites for both the east and west coast.\u00a0 During Hurricane Charlie in 2004 33 pre-impact shelters were opened.<\/p>\n<p>Tornado season can also bring a need for shelters depending on the size of the storm and the path that it takes.<\/p>\n<p>While Polk County has a very robust county wide radio system it will overload during a major incident and could fail at various levels.\u00a0 Our ability to handle even 5-10% of radio traffic will be a major help during these events.<\/p>\n<p>What do you need to be a shelter operator?<\/p>\n<p>1)\u00a0 The time to train and make sure your equipment works.<\/p>\n<p>2)\u00a0 The time to actually deploy to a shelter.\u00a0 Pre storm during a hurricane could mean being at the shelter hours before it hits to hours afterward depending on damage, county radio system integrity, etc.\u00a0 You have to be at the shelter prior to the storms arrival since travel soon becomes to dangerous as the storm approaches.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in being a shelter operator, or need more information, please send me an email to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/polkares.org\/?page_id=130\">Contact Us<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you in advance for your commitment to Polk ARES and your community<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calling all Shelter Operators Shelter radio operators are needed for different events, mostly weather related.\u00a0 Our main concern is hurricane season.\u00a0 Polk County is one of the primary evacuation sites for both the east and west coast.\u00a0 During Hurricane Charlie in 2004 33 pre-impact shelters were opened. Tornado season can also bring a need for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":518,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-514","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/polkares.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/polkares.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/polkares.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polkares.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polkares.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/polkares.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"https:\/\/polkares.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/514\/revisions\/1086"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polkares.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/polkares.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}