Below is the info on the upcoming county ARES/RACES quarterly exercise (Saturday - July 22 from 2 - 4 PM). OFFICIALLY SARES will not be participating in this exercise. That being said, IF any member INDIVIDUALLY would like to participate or monitor, please feel free to do from any location you prefer. SARES will not be providing any DSW coverage. All I ask is that you send me an e-mail ONLY if you participate in or monitor the exercise. Bob Gundrum, KG6MOL EC, SARES -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Scc-ec] Drill Scenario Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 13:46:57 -0700 From: Larry.Carr@oes.sccgov.org To: scc-ec@svpal.org SCENARIO -- SCCo ARES/RACES DRILL IN JULY, July 22, 2006, 2-4 pm Our July 22 drill will be a Snowstorm. We will call it a "snowstorm" because we do not want to scare people who are listening, which we would do if we called it a wild land fire. However, in your planning, think about what you would be asked to do if your city had a massive fire during a high-wind day -- similar to a major snowstorm with high winds, which becomes a blizzard. What would your city need hams to do if there were a major forest fire in your jurisdiction? This could happen in any city which is in the urban-wild-land interface, but it can also happen to other cities if a major fire (shopping center, for instance), causes firebrands to spread over a wide area, setting houses and trees on fire. Now consider the effect if there was a strong wind blowing! So, the day is 95 deg, 10% humidity, 30-40 mph wind, wild-land fire, or major structure fire with firebrands blowing 1250 ft -- think Oakland fire. You should consider this to be a blizzard condition. You can report acres of fire as "feet of snow" -- I.e. a five-acre fire would be "five feet of snow". If the fire is spreading across a highway, you can report "Blizzard conditions causing major snow blowing across I-280" Consider possible city responses that would require ham assistance - evacuations, area status reports, shelters, logistics, shadowing, fire response coordination. Assume the telephones are overloaded, and cell phones as well. You can send status reports to SCCo using the EOC radio net, the message net, or the command net. We will also be ready to receive RIMS reports over the packet net. ECs in participating cities can request ham mutual aid from SCCo, and we at the county will process these requests, but we will not be running a Resource Net. So, if you need mutual aid assistance, please send us a request, after clearing the request with your city Emergency Manager, or simulate his/her approval. I will try to write example scripts for messages to cities and to the county, and forward these to you as I get them developed. We will be operating on the following frequencies: Message Net: W6TI/R, 147.36(+) PL 110.9 Command Net: WB6ZVW/R, 442.500(-) PL 100.0 Packet Net: 144.91/S, 223.660/S _______________________________________________ Scc-ec mailing list Scc-ec@svpal.org http://mailman.svpal.org/mailman/listinfo/scc-ec No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.8/380 - Release Date: 6/30/2006 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SARES members mailing list: <sares-list@sunnyvaleares.org> For help with (un)subscription send e-mail to <majordomo@athm.net>Received on Mon Jul 10 00:20:38 2006
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