Who We Are: We are a group of volunteers who want to assist anyone in need of emergency help. We are aware that it is extremely hard for emergency personnel to find anyone out here on the desert, especially at night, as there are few named roads and many ravines and mesas. We are loosely organized, but have no defined …
Imperial Dam Recreation Area Emergency Response Team
The Imperial Dam LTVA Emergency Response Team monitors CB channel 12 twenty-four hours a day and are very familiar with the area so they can lead the emergency vehicles to your location any time day or night. If you do not have a CB, check with your neighbors and see if you can get them to call for you if …
A Brief History of Swap Shop
Bob/Slobberjaws & Mary/Vixen January 1, 2016 To the best of Slobberjaws recollection: Slobberjaws “thinks” the swap shop started about 1995, Kra-Z-Ate probably was the originator of this idea. In the beginning, people would call in swap shop stuff on their CB radios. Then the mailbox was purchased for people to drop off their swap shop items in around 2001. Every …
Emergency Response Team
Doug (Northwind) Unofficial Team Coordinator w/ BLM November 1, 2015 Editor’s Note: The Emergency Response Team (ERT) now has its own website at: ert.imperialdam.com. I am writing this as a relatively new member of the Senator Wash Response Team and wish to extend an open invitation for all to come by on any Tuesday morning and join us for coffee and …
LTVA Emergency Policy
January 1, 2015 The Imperial Dam LTVA Emergency Team monitors CB Channel 12, 24 hours a day, and is very familiar with the area, so they can lead the emergency vehicles to your location at any time, day or night (approximately 7-10 minutes response time). If you do not have a CB radio, check with your neighbors and ask if …
CB Story
Submitted by Linda “Kookieuke” Hendershot January 1, 2015 Originally this story was done by Fred “Broadcaster” Ross for the CB Directory. I Have shortened the story for the news letter. For a long time, CB Channel 12 has been a very important part of life here on this part of the Sonoran desert. Initially the “Imperial Dam Nation” CB club …