ARES- Manatee County

Who Makes Up The Manatee County ARES

The MC-ARES is made up of Manatee County Amateur Radio operators dedicated to volunteering their time, equipment, and skills for emergency communications needs. This reserve of volunteers, working as one organization, provides communications for Manatee County Emergency Management during times of need.

Anyone, regardless of club or other Amateur Radio affiliations, with a sincere interest and desire to help the community with its emergency communication needs, is invited to become a part of the Manatee County - Amateur Radio Emergency Service.

What Services Does MC-ARES Provide

The primary MC-ARES objective is to provide backup communications services to Emergency Management during emergencies or disaster situations. This may consist of deploying operators to the Emergency Operations Center, the Red Cross, Emergency or Special Needs Shelters, or other locations that may need communications.

We also work with our local Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program, to teach Communications and to encourage CERT members to become ham radio operators to assist their CERT teams and MC-ARES with communications.

Want To Help?

MC-ARES is always looking for additional team members. Are you interested? If you would like to help provide dedicated Emergency Communications assistance to our first responders and the residents of Manatee County, we can train you to become a skilled operator.