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Managing the Fireground Using Technology

Managing the Fireground Using Technology. NIEM 2009. Xenophon “Yo” Gikas, Jr. Captain Los Angeles Fire Department. Los Angeles Metrics. Los Angels County 88 Incorporated Cities Largest population(over 10 million) in the Nation Coastline of 81 Miles 4,084 Square Miles.

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Managing the Fireground Using Technology

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  1. Managing the Fireground Using Technology NIEM 2009

  2. Xenophon “Yo” Gikas, Jr. Captain Los Angeles Fire Department

  3. Los Angeles Metrics • Los Angels County • 88 Incorporated Cities • Largest population(over 10 million) in the Nation • Coastline of 81 Miles • 4,084 Square Miles • Los Angels City • Second Largest City in US • 4.1 M Population • 470 Square Miles • 106 Fire Stations NIEM 2009

  4. Los Angeles Fire Department • Voice – 18 Channel, Conventional, Analog, Simulcast • Data: 4 Channel, Motorola DataTac • Station Alerting: 2 line, 56kbps • Administration Network: T1 • MDC - Panasonic Toughbooks in Apparatus • CAD - Home Grown NIEM 2009

  5. Los Angeles Fire Department • Computerized Fire and EMS Reports • Email • Word Processing • Electronic Timekeeping (paper redundancy) • Dispatch Messaging • Instructional DVDs • Web Portal NIEM 2009

  6. Our World is Changing …We Need to Adapt NIEM 2009

  7. We Need Information • Building Inventories • Resource Availability ** • Sensor Status • Hospitals ** • Maps • Imagery • Pre-Plans • Weather NIEM 2009

  8. Communications • Real Time • Two Way • Multi Path ?? • Everywhere • Collaborative • All Levels NIEM 2009

  9. Tactical Information Project • Core Platform – ICBRNE, AWARE, HIP • Standards Based – IP, EDXL, OGC… • “Best of Breed” • Mobile Client Software • Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) • GPS • MESH Capabilities NIEM 2009

  10. Automatic Vehicle Location • Resource Tracking • Hot Spots • Coverage • Smart Routing • Learning System NIEM 2009

  11. Resource Accountability • #1 Priority • “F-666” • Have to be at CP NIEM 2009

  12. Resource Accountability • Drag & Drop • Annotate • Collaborate • Share NIEM 2009

  13. Confined Space/Hazmat Operations NIEM 2009

  14. Confined Space Operation NIEM 2009

  15. Real Time Sensor Monitoring NIEM 2009

  16. ICBRNE – Los Angeles Fielded System CAP Common Alerting Protocol CAP Common Alerting Protocol EDXL-DE Distribution Element All Instruments Operate the same COTS Situational Awareness Applications NIEM 2009

  17. ICBRNE – Los Angeles Fielded System Direct – Ex: ADASHI Federal – OPEN/DMIS NIEM 2009

  18. ICBRNE – CAP Alerts NIEM 2009

  19. Sensor Server NIEM 2009

  20. A Standards Story Four Feet, Eight and a Half Inches Standard gauge railway lines are used in Britain, Europe, the USA, & many other countries. It is used on such high speed lines as France's TGV, Germany's ICE, & Japan's Bullet Trains. Standard gauge, in railway terminology, means a distance between the rails of 4 feet, 8 ½ inches or 1.435 meters. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, & English expatriates built railways all around the world. Why did the English build them like that? Because the first railway lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railway tramways, and that's the gauge they used. Why did they use that gauge in England, then? NIEM 2009

  21. A Standards Story Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing. Okay! Why did their wagons use that odd wheel spacing? Because, if they tried to use any other spacing the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads. Because that's the spacing of the old wheel ruts. So who built these old rutted roads? The first long distance roads in Europe were built by Imperial Rome for the benefit of their legions. The Roman roads have been used ever since. And the ruts? The original ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagons, were first made by the wheels of Roman war chariots.   NIEM 2009

  22. A Standards Story Since the chariots were made for or by Imperial Rome they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. Thus, we have the answer to the original question. The standard railway gauge of 4 feet, 8 1/2 inches derives from the original specification for an Imperial Roman army war chariot. What’s the Point? NIEM 2009

  23. A Standards Story The next time you are handed a specification and wonder what “Horse's Ass” came up with it, you may be exactly right. Because the Imperial Roman chariots were made to be just wide enough to accommodate the back-ends of two war-horses. NIEM 2009

  24. Thank You! Xenophon “Yo” Gikas, Jr. NIEM 2009

  25. Managing the Fireground Using Technology NIEM 2009 NIEM 2009

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