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• 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 KITSSUGGESTED TO ADD 2 ADDITIONAL

RADIO KITS TO THE STARTER SYSTEMS– 4381 CMD-TAC– 4244 LOGS

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NIFC UPDATENIFC 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 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 & ROSSMIRPS & 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???

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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