Community Emergency Radio Service is a simple grassroots effort starting right here in our area to help places like Northville, NY folks stay connected during emergencies. When phones, power, and the internet go down, radio becomes the lifeline—letting neighbors share quick updates, check on each other, and pass messages from an within an affected area to outside that affected area.

 We're starting with FRS and GMRS radios: no license needed for FRS, easy license for GMRS. No special training required—just turn on, listen, and talk when you need to. Everyone's welcome. This page began in Northville, but it's built for growth. There's room for other neighborhoods across the country to share resources, ideas, and net guides.  We have plans to setup a GMRS repeater to better serve our area, a weekly radio net and simple, easy face to face training as needed.

The goal is to get communications out of an affected area to a place where normal communications still work and messages can reach where they're needed. Our most valuable resource is people—the more neighbors you can get to join us, the stronger our network becomes. So even if you live alone, you don't have to be alone. In an emergency, there are two kinds of people: those affected and those not affected who want to help. That's why every person matters. 

So… which one are you? Be the neighbor that wants to help.  One radio in the middle of an outage is like a single link in a chain, but the more we connect those links, the stronger the chain gets. 

Let's build this together, one home at a time.