Esf 02 gema cema 2010

Hurricane Communications Planning Process- State Level
Objectives…
Identify current means of communications, including commercial means and how current commercial providers will fit into disaster response communications.
Identify communications needs as they relate to agency functions and disaster response- specifically, hurricane response.
Construct ICS 217A for involved agencies.
Construct communications plan (eventual end product).

Assumptions…
Communications will be mostly compartmentalized and point-to-point: team member to team member, team to team and specific person/position to specific person/position.
Even if it were a goal, everyone would not always be able to talk to everyone.
Everyone really doesn’t need to talk to everyone.

Identify what resources are needed and available (either immediately or after some time/process/steps)
Identify what those resources currently use to communicate.
Identify which specific resources need to communicate with other specific resources.
Make assumptions about what of the above you will or not be able to use in a disaster response- our case today, a hurricane response. These assumptions also feed your COOP/DR planning.

Base /Area Command- IMT

Third Step…
Construct a matrix that identifies commonalties in means of communication.
Identify gaps that need to be filled.
Fill in gaps with mutual aid means (example: NIFOG), equipment or some other solution.

Fourth Step…
Construct ICS 205 for incident to use as basis of communications plan.

Hurricane Communications Planning Process- State Level Summary:
A lot of our disaster communications at the state level will be dependent on:
SouthernLINC
Use of the NIFOG for Land Mobile Radio communications interoperability
Compartmentalized communications capability (within groups/group-to-group/point-to-point/individual-to-individual)
Satellite for point-to-point/PSTN interface

Hurricane Communications Planning Process- State Level Summary:
Sometimes interoperable communications does not consist of trying to use technology to ‘patch’ disparate systems together, but rather trying to ensure point-to-point information flow while maintaining ‘within group/function’ communications ability and integrity.
On large-scale operations expect communications to be more compartmentalized and point-to-point oriented.

NIFOG National Interoperability Field Operations Guide U.S. Department of Homeland Security Office of Emergency Communications Version 1.3 May 2009

NIFOG Contents
REGULATIONS AND GUIDELINES FOR NATIONAL INTEROPERABILITY
INTEROPERABILITY CHANNELS
COMMON COMMUNICATIONS REFERENCES
COMMONLY USED FREQUENCIES

NIFOG Contents
Identifies available radio frequencies for federal and non-federal responders to use for mutual aid on:
VHF
UHF
700 MHz
800 MHz
including use in specific functions such as aviation, marine and SAR.

NIFOG Use
Most agencies will use the NIFOG to help identify radio frequencies that they will use to talk to one another.
It is important to get these frequencies programmed into your radio BEFORE a disaster.

NIFOG
To get a copy:
http://www.ncdhhs.gov/dhsr/EMS/pdf/NIFOG.pdf (download)
Email DHS Office if Emergency Communications to request spiral-bound pocket editions: [email_address]

Hurricane Communications Planning Process
Questions?
Wayne Smith
GEMA
ESF- 2: Communications
404-635-4208
[email_address]

Esf 02 gema cema 2010

by Chatham EMA on May 19, 2010

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