Another year in the books and another year with Covid interrupting all kinds of activities. Looking at our stats for the year, we improved our operations from 1,994 ops in 2020 to 2,550 ops in 2021. Donated volunteer hours were 23,962 in 2021 vs. 19,279 in 2020. Great work by all the membership in the …
It looks like the holidays are upon us. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. As we approach the end of the year, I would like to ask that the Counties that are not reporting each month to please start reporting your activities. It doesn’t take long to compile your data and send it to …
October was Simulated Emergency Test month. A number of ARES groups in the Missouri Section held local SETs. Here is St. Charles County, our ARES group held a SET based on windshield damage assessment from a tornado that crossed part of St. Charles County. The goal of the SET was to pass traffic back to …
Coming on October 23rd, ARES is conducting a statewide communications exercise. It’s purpose is to test our ability to communicate with each other around the state. County ARES groups were contacted and we have 20 counties and SEMA signed up to participate. Due to the amount of work and timing, the request for participants is …