Welcome to Minnesota Emergency Communications Team

The Minnesota Emergency Communications Team is an emergency search and rescue team located in St. Paul, MN.  Founded in 2007, The Minnesota Emergency Communications Team is dedicated to serving the area and its citizens in whatever capacity we are called to perform. We currently have several programs that serve the community as follows:

• its Emergency Communications Disaster Relief Corps;
• its Trap Ride program (a program that provides transportation of wheelchair when a person is taken by ambulance to the hospital Trap Ride transports the wheelchair for the person); and
• its Wheelchair Safety Lighting System program (a program that outfits mobility wheelchairs with a safety lighting kit so a person has a means to cross unsafe intersections safely. This program meets an unmet need in the wheelchair community).

Minnesota Emergency Communications Team is a 501(c)(3) Organization

We are a non-profit, tax-exempt organization. We are always looking for volunteers to provide community services, and the Minnesota Emergency Communications Team provides training to new recruits regardless as to whether they have experience.

Minnesota Emergency Communications Team Recruitment and Openings

The Minnesota Emergency Communications Team is currently recruiting for the following volunteer/stipend positions. We are also seeking a volunteer with grant writing experience to help us find full time funding for these positions:

• Public Safety Manager - Law Enforcement or Public Safety Background Required.  See more...
• Drivers (3) - Experience driving emergency vehicles and following emergency communications dispatch.  See more...
• General Volunteers - Will assist with Search and Rescue and other organizational duties. See more ...
• Fundraising Specialist - Will assist the Minnesota Emergency Communications Team with fundraising events
• Returning Veterans of War - We need your expertise for training, fundraising and search and rescue.

The Minnesota Emergency Communicatins Team has recently benefitted from the generosity of HealthEast, who donated an ambulance, a wheelchair accessible van, and multiple two-way radios to the organization to be used in the field and for administrative purposes. This generous donation has positively affected the service level able to be provided to the community by The Minnesota Emergency Communications Team, spefically with their gift of the working ambulance donated in March, 2013. See photo above.

The purpose of the Minnesota Emergency Communications Team is to assist the community during natural disasters, missing persons crises, and other events in which radio communications are necessary. In doing so we are performing a service to the community in times of crises. Immediate, effective and reliable radio communications is the greatest need when trying to work together to solve emergency crises -- whether it be a bridge collapse or another emergency such as the 9/11 attacks on the U.S., earthquake, flooding, or other crises.

Minnesota Emergency Communications Team's Mission Statement:

To provide a public service during disasters, emergencies, search and rescue and public events utilizing radio communications equipment and volunteer teams of licensed ham radio operators and emergency response units. By maintaining the radio community we are guaranteeing ourselves a way to communicate in times of crises, whether local or nationwide.  To those who have already filled many of these roles, i.e., police, fire, medics, doctors, nurses, and our armed forces, our thanks and gratitude goes out to you, and we look forward to being able to work in partnership with you.