RESOURCES

Elmer Harbron KC8KEY and Steve Ramsey KC8VDT at the RESOURCE UNIT desk. These are the first people you see when arriving at the command post and the last one's you see before leaving! RESOURCES keeps track of everyone involved in the incident. Signing in and out is a big part of how we keep track of everyone, so it is very important to do so.

Operations & Planning

Rob McPherson N8OMW Doubled as the Operations Chief and Planning Section Chief for this drill. This is where Planning figures out what needs to be done, how many people it will take to get it done, has resources order up that many people, and projects a plan as to where and how those resources need to be distributed. Operations takes that information and fills out ICS-204 forms for each segment of the plan. Individuals or teams of people will be assigned to each "Mission" (ICS-204) to complete that particular task.

Incident Communications

TAC-1

Hospital Net

Tactical channels are set up to handle the bulk of the incident traffic.

Specialized nets are established to pass the names of people involved in the incident to a central location so all persons involved can be accounted for.

Information Net

Remote Communications Center

Who or where do you call when you need directions on how to get to your assignment, check on a family member, or just to find out what is going on? You go to the Information Net- amply manned by Ed Thornsburg KF8PD.

Dependant on the size of the incident and the amount of time the incident last or to keep the amount of traffic minimal into a main communications center, it may be desirable to setup and operate a Mobile Communications Center "on site".

Red Cross Emergency Response Vehicle

Red Cross Shelter Team

We often set up a Red Cross Net to maintain contact and tracking of the Red Cross vehicles, communications between the vehicles, shelters and offices within the county.

This shelter team had to face a differant concept: Shelter the incident workers between shift changes! Sometimes more difficult to deal with than distressed civilians in a disaster are the WORKERs themselves!

Joint training of this type and incorporating your served agency in a slightly differant roll than they are use to doing benifits both organizations. This drill helped Red Cross officials realize that they may be spread very thin if they had to shelter "Clients" and workers as well in differant locations! LOGISTICALLY a nightmare! The good thing, it got them to thinking "out of the box". They held their own "brain storming" session afterwards in a huge "WHAT IF" session. Since then, they have updated their response plan a bit ......

Last Update: 05/05/05