WELCOME!Chief Cody Cullimore

Purpose

A drill sponsored by the city in cooperation with local businesses, schools, and churches.

To practice communication and response in a situation where normal communication channels have broken down and normal resources are not enough.

Publicity / Outreach

How You Can Help!

• Signs in Business Windows

• Double-Sided Yard Signs

• School Notifications

• Block Captains Distribute the Flier to Everyone in the City:• Week before the

drill

• Block Captains Talk to Neighbors About the Drill

• Make or Practice a Family Emergency Plan

Put out yard signs starting September 9, not before!

This year’s flier and competition!

2014 Lindon City DrillKelly Johnson

Aesop on Human Nature

The Antand theGrasshopper

The Ant & the Grasshopper Become Friends

DAY OF PREPAREDNESS

72-hour Go-Kit

96-hour Go-Kit

3 months food & basics• Medication• Baby/kid stuff• Water purifier

Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.

~Neil deGrasse Tyson

Disaster Cycle

Disaster

Response

RecoveryPrevention

Preparedness

Preparedness Cycle

Plan

Organize & Equip

TrainExercise

Evaluate Improve

The Basic Communication Chain

Block Gathering

Neighborhood EOC Area EOC

The Basic Drill Plan

TIMEREVERSE 911 CALL

REPORT CHAIN

Block to City

RADIO TRANSMISSI

ON

TABLE-TOP EXERCISE CITY EOC

DEBRIEF CITY BUILDING

6:00 PM

6:15 PM

6:30 PM

6:45 PM

7:00 PM

7:15 PM

7:30 PM

7:45 PM

8:00 PM

8:15 PM

8:30 PM

6:00 PM

BLOCK CAPTAINS:

• Honk horns at EXACTLY 6:00 PM

• Blocks Gather

• Properly & Quickly Fill Out FORM

• Send FORM to the Neighborhood Captain by Pair of Runners

• Activity? (Sensitivity to your block’s needs…)

PAIR = LESS PERIL

COMMUNICATION CHAIN(After 6:00 PM)

NEIGHBORHOOD CAPTAINS:

• Collect FORMS from Block Captains (ENCOURAGE SPEEDY COLLECTION)

• Tally Numbers and Information on Neighborhood FORMS and Send to Area Command by Paired Runners

• Don’t Close Neighborhood EOC Until You Get a Response from the Area

AREA CAPTAINS:

• Tally Numbers/Info on Area FORMS and send to City EOC by both Paired Runners AND Radio

• Don’t Close EOC Until You Get a Response from the City

LINDON CITYEmergency Operations Center (EOC)

Practicing Role Specific Functions Through Simulated Scenarios

Police / Fire• Communication• Prioritizing and

allocating resources

• Calling in help• Security issues• Mapping events• Media relations

City Council & Mayor• How to declare a

State of Emergency

• Matters of Policy • Interfacing with

the community to address concerns

Will Receive A Scenario to Send Up the Communication Chain!

DO NOT LOSE THEM!These cannot be replaced!

40 LUCKY Citizens

Sample Scenario

What you might see / hear . . .“We have one giant pancake, 23 feet in diameter. Please send pancake lovers to 444 East 710 North. They must bring their forks.”

Meanwhile, at the City Center . . .“There’s a large tree blocking the road at 444 East 710 North. Please send debris crew, they must bring their chainsaws.”

RADIO

• Two-way Communication

• Ham Radio Training Item

• Chance for Amateur Operators to Respond to the Event by Radio

City net frequencies (Simplex)146.56 MHz (Voice)446.500 MHz (Digital)

Emergency Preparedness

Specialist PACKETS

FIRST! Sign them out!

INSIDE YOU SHOULD FIND:

• Instructions for Emergency Preparedness Specialists

• Forms for Block & Neighborhood Captains

• Instructions for Block & Neighborhood Captains

• Smaller Envelope(s) with the Special Scenarios

• Fliers for Copying / Distribution• These should get

placed on every door in the city

#20

Don’t lose your forms!

But if you do….

Forms can be found here:

www.LindonCityDrill.com

Accounting FORMS

Neighborhood & Area FORMS

NEW! Volunteer Hour FORMS

WHY Track Volunteer Hours? Once a presidential disaster declaration is issued and

damages are documented, FEMA can provide up to a 75 percent cost reimbursement for eligible projects. State and local entities then must come up with a 25 percent shared cost match. ($, donations, services)

The time citizens and volunteer groups spend sandbagging, clearing debris from clogged drains, taking and logging calls, staffing warming centers, and many other duties may be an allowable reimbursement under the FEMA Public Assistance programs but volunteer efforts need to be organized and documented correctly.

WHY Track Volunteer Hours?

If disaster cost $1,000,000.00

Lindon must provide $250,000.00

100 x $17.50/hr @ 4 hrs = $7,000.00

5,000 x $17.50/hr @ 4 hrs = $350,000.00

But if disaster cost . . . $10,000,000.00

Then we must provide $2,500,000.00

A WORD on VOLUNTEERISM

• If you want to volunteer with an existing agency...• Red Cross• UCARES• CERT• MRC

• NOW is the time!

• Be careful!• Personal

protective equipment

• Don’t become a part of the problem… the “disaster within a disaster”

• Children

• VOLUNTEER to HELP with THIS DRILL

CommunicationsDavid Banner

Communications in an Emergency

Phone Runner Radio

First choice in an emergency• Everyone has one• Highly reliable• Easy to use

BUT:• Requires infrastructure• Infrastructure can be overloaded

Phone

CommunicationsNetwork

If any of the links between you and the other person are broken or overwhelmed, your callcannot go through.

Nat’l Guard - Hurricane Katrina

• Main communications hub in New Orleans destroyed• Cell towers downed• Damaged telephone lines

• Satellite phones overloaded satellite bandwidth

• Hurricane landfall August 29.• Most National Guard communications

restored by Sept. 12.

Texting• Requires very little bandwidth• Uses phone’s control channel• Contains location information• No “Text to 911” in Utah

Phone: Use for Non-Voice

Phone: Use for Non-Voice

Social Media• Low bandwidth• Posting is quick• Reaches large numbers• Useful for:• “I am safe”• “Stay away from this

area”

Runners

• Useful over short distance• Reliable• Always send in pairs

BUT:• Two-way communications is slow

Foot / Bike / Motorized Vehicle

Radio

FRS (Family Radio Service)

Ham Radio

FRS Radio

• Inexpensive• Easy to use• Easy to find

BUT:• Very low power (1/2 watt)• Limited number of channels• Antenna not swappable• Limited to line-of-sight

communications

Ham radio – “When all else fails…”

• Lots of frequencies• Handheld radios can tie into repeaters to traverse terrain• Larger radios capable of communicating over great distances• Can use digital modes for faxes, images, etc.

BUT:• Requires a written exam to obtain FCC license• Off-the-shelf equipment can be expensive• Not as ubiquitous as phones/FRS radios• “You may not be able to talk to the person you want to talk to, but you will probably be able to talk to somebody.”

Communications at the Drill

BlockNeighborhood

Area

Lindon StorehouseLindon City

Communications at the Drill

City-wide ham radio net Starts about 6:20 PM Any Lindon operators welcome to check-

in

City net frequencies (Simplex) 146.56 MHz (Voice) 446.500 MHz (Digital)

Special NeedsAngie Hendrickson

What are special needs?

Anything you need to be mobile Wheelchair / crutches Transportation help due to▪ age, weight, illness, impairment, other

Anything you need to function Medication Medical devices Personal assistance from parent or professional Translator (if all messages are in English) Help for those who are sight or hearing impaired

Business & ContinuityBob Buckner

Business and Continuity

OUR GREATEST BUSINESS ASSET:

OUR PEOPLE

Business and Continuity

Signs in windows

Company-wide Meeting

▪ Explain importance of knowing what to do ahead of time.▪ Demonstrate Drop, Cover and Hold On▪ Hold a 60-second drill▪ Sh0rt Review after drill

DROP, COVER, AND HOLD ON!

DROP Drop to the floor

Cover Get under a table, chair, etc.

Hold On! If your cover moves,

move with it.

THANK YOUfor being here, for being great, for being you

Worrying about the past or the future isn't productive. When you start chastising yourself for past mistakes, or seeing disaster around every corner, stop and take a breath and ask yourself what you can do right now to succeed.

~Harvey Mackay