NLW 2005 COMMUNICATIONS

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NLW 2005 COMMUNICATIONS

• NARROWBANDING
• NIFC Starter Kits
• CAMP IN A BOX (From a Comm. Stand point).
• MIRPS / ROSS
• NIFC UPDATE
• FIRESCOPE UPDATE

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NARROWBANDING

• ALL FEDERAL FREQUNCIES ARE NARROWBAND.
• All NIFC Equipment fall within this
  standard/limitation.
• All LPH radios AND Some older EPH radios need to
  be surplused .
• All cooperator radios that do not match the
  narrowband standard need to be replaced.
• The quantity of radios needed may increase to the
  point where Ops may be negatively impacted.
• NIFC put out a SAFETY BULLETIN in JULY 2004

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NIFC STARTER KITS

• SUGGESTED TO ADD 2 ADDITIONAL RADIO KITS TO THE
  STARTER SYSTEMS
• 4381 CMD-TAC
• 4244 LOGS

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NIFC UPDATE

• FREQ COORDINATION
• NEED TO CONTACT THE CDO _at_ BOSIE
• RADIO CACHES ARE STILL PRE-POSITIONED IN GACCS
• WHEN RADIOS GO BACK FOR REWORK, RADIOS GO BACK TO
  NIFC.
• STARTER SYSTEM IS THE ONLY KIT AVAILABLE FOR
  PRE-ORDER, NO OTHER PRE-ORDERS ARE AVAILABLE THIS
  YEAR.
• ALL EQUIPMENT THAT IS NOT BEING USED OR NOT
  NEEDED, NEEDS TO BE SHIPPED BACK TO FOR
  REASSIGNMENT.
• STARTER SYSTEMS DO NOT NEED TO BE KEPT WHOLE.
• SATELITE PHONES
• USE THE PHONES IF YOU NEED THEM.
• TRY TO USE THE SAT PHONES IN STARTER KITS TO HELP
  GET A BETTER COST OVERALL FOR CONTRACT PRICING.

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CAMP IN A BOX
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MIRPS ROSS

• In California, a study was done by FIRESCOPE and
  it was found that personnel in ROSS and MIRPS,
  which is the California equivalent of ROSS, was
  signficantly inaccurate which may contribute to
  the delays and frequent UTFs when placing orders
  for personnel.
• Is this just a California problem???

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FIRESCOPE UPDATE

• FIRESCOPE COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST GROUP
• Acts as Fire Working Group for the California
  Statewide Interoperability Executive Committee
  (CALSIEC)
• Makes recommendations to FIRESCOPE Task Force

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FIRESCOPE UPDATE

• Recommendation for minimum 240 channel VHF
  conventional radio in every California fire
  department vehicle
• Recommendation that DIVS, STEN, and single
  resource boss receive 4 hours of annual basic
  radio training
• Pending recommendation that 800 MHz. radios
  (non-trunking) be available for Strike Teams and
  Overhead that respond into areas that are
  normally served by 800 MHz. trunked radio systems.

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FIRESCOPE UPDATE

• Other issues being worked on
• Developing a statewide plan by determing channels
  that could be used for mutual aid for all-risk
  incidents in all 58 counties in California
• Investigation of the viability of inter-agency
  rapid response communications teams (CAT) for
  first 72 hours of incidents
• Creating a statewide database of interoperability
  communications equipment (mobile communications
  centers, radio caches, gateway black boxes,
  etc.)

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What is Hazard Pay?
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QUESTIONS

• WWW.YAHOOGROUPS.COM/
• SEARCH CAINCOMM
• WWW.FIRESCOPE.ORG
• WWW.NIFC.GOV