Emergency Management - County Warning Point (CWP) The County Warning Point is Emergency Management’s Communications Center. The County Warning Point is manned 24-hours, 7 days a week. It serves as Palm Beach County’s after-hours contact point for every agency in the county other than the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue, and Palm Beach County Water Utilities. It also serves as a contact point for partner agencies such as the Florida Department of Transportation, the American Red Cross, and others. In addition to contact point duties on a day-to-day basis, Emergency Management Communicators provide disaster-related communications support and staff the Tactical Command Unit, a mobile command bus that is operated jointly with Fire Rescue. |
Regional Alert Notification System The Palm Beach County Regional Alert and Notification System partners Emergency Management with the municipalities in Palm Beach County. All support and training for the system is handled by Emergency Management. The system has been in use at Emergency Management for 4 years, and the Regional system has been running since July 2005. In the four years of operation, the system has been used to make more than 1 million telephone calls, including more than 200,000 during the hurricane seasons of 2004 and 2005. These calls have included evacuation callouts, callouts for the malaria incident in 2002, and callouts for boil water orders, and the restoration of infrastructure following Hurricanes Francis, Jeanne, and Wilma. |
Palm Beach County RACES (Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service) RACES provides a trained pool of Amateur Radio operators for emergency operations in Palm Beach County. These communicators are assigned to the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and shelters. They are also assigned to requesting area hospitals and municipal operations centers. RACES is run under the authority of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in cooperation and coordination with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). RACES also provides communications for public service events such as the March of Dimes and the MS Walk-A-Thon, coordinates with the Palm Beach County Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) to help fill communications needs, and holds weekly radio nets for practice and training. In Palm Beach County, RACES has approximately 180 members |
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