{"id":11,"date":"2014-04-08T03:11:49","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T03:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ares.bcoares.org\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2017-02-03T00:09:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T05:09:28","slug":"11-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bcoares.org\/?page_id=11","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bcoares.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSCN0444.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-170\" src=\"https:\/\/bcoares.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSCN0444-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Madison County Tourism Day\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcoares.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSCN0444-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bcoares.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSCN0444-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bcoares.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_0077.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-115 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/bcoares.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_0077-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Nantahala Balloon Recovery\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcoares.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_0077-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bcoares.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_0077.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our trained and credentialed members volunteer their time, equipment and expertise without compensation for communication assistance to public service events in and around Buncombe County. On occasion members will assist other Amateur Radio Clubs or ARES groups who need our expertise and operators for their public service events.<\/p>\n<p>We provide auxillary volunteer communications to Buncombe County Emergency Services, other served agencies and Mission Hospital&#8217;s emergency Winlink communications system when requested.\u00a0 We are proud to support our professional first responders and our community in events, exercises and times of emergency.<\/p>\n<p>Buncombe County ARES &#8211; Carolina Mountain Area Skywarn provides real time severe weather observations to the National Weather Service in Greenville-Spartanburg, SC.<\/p>\n<p>Buncombe County is in District 14 of the State ARES map.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/bcoares.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/aresmap.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8\" src=\"https:\/\/bcoares.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/aresmap.png\" alt=\"aresmap\" width=\"990\" height=\"609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcoares.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/aresmap.png 990w, https:\/\/bcoares.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/aresmap-300x184.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/a><\/center><center><\/center><center><a href=\"https:\/\/bcoares.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/district14.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9\" src=\"https:\/\/bcoares.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/district14.png\" alt=\"district14\" width=\"685\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcoares.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/district14.png 685w, https:\/\/bcoares.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/district14-300x170.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><\/a><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our trained and credentialed members volunteer their time, equipment and expertise without compensation for communication assistance to public service events in and around Buncombe County. On occasion members will assist other Amateur Radio Clubs or ARES groups who need our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bcoares.org\/?page_id=11\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcoares.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcoares.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcoares.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcoares.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcoares.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/bcoares.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/bcoares.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcoares.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}