NLW 2005 COMMUNICATIONS

1. NLW 2005 COMMUNICATIONS • NARROWBANDING • NIFC Starter Kits • CAMP IN A BOX (From a Comm. Stand point). • MIRPS / ROSS • NIFC UPDATE • FIRESCOPE UPDATE NLW 2005 COMMUNICATIONS BREAKOUT

2. 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 NLW 2005 COMMUNICATIONS BREAKOUT

3. NIFC STARTER KITS SUGGESTED TO ADD 2 ADDITIONAL RADIO KITS TO THE STARTER SYSTEMS • 4381 CMD-TAC • 4244 LOGS NLW 2005 COMMUNICATIONS BREAKOUT

4. NIFC UPDATE • FREQ COORDINATION • NEED TO CONTACT THE CDO @ BOSIE • RADIO CACHES ARE STILL PRE-POSITIONED IN GACC’S • WHEN RADIOS GO BACK FOR REWORK, RADIOS GO BACK TONIFC. • 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. NLW 2005 COMMUNICATIONS BREAKOUT

5. CAMP IN A BOX NLW 2005 COMMUNICATIONS BREAKOUT

6. 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 UTF’s when placing orders for personnel. • Is this just a California problem??? NLW 2005 COMMUNICATIONS BREAKOUT

7. 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 NLW 2005 COMMUNICATIONS BREAKOUT

8. 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. NLW 2005 COMMUNICATIONS BREAKOUT

9. 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.) NLW 2005 COMMUNICATIONS BREAKOUT

10. What is Hazard Pay? NLW 2005 COMMUNICATIONS BREAKOUT

11. QUESTIONS • WWW.YAHOOGROUPS.COM/ • SEARCH “ CAINCOMM” • WWW.FIRESCOPE.ORG • WWW.NIFC.GOV NLW 2005 COMMUNICATIONS BREAKOUT