[Alexandria Radio Club Reflector] FW: ARC/ARES participation in Alexandria Full Scale Exercise 25-April

Tue Apr 11 11:20:34 EDT 2023

ALL,

                I need at least four more volunteers for APRIL 25th
(Tuesday) from 9AM to 3 PM.  The drill is being run by the CITY Emergency
Management Office and they have invited us to support.

                Two (Ian N8IK and Don KI4D) will work as NCS at the EOC

                We need four other volunteers who can take off or are free
that day to support the field operation.  One of the known locations will be
FIRE STATION 203. 2801 Cameron Mills Road , .Alexandria, Virginia, 22302.

Plan of Operation

9AM Assume that the city has asked for our assistance and sent out a request
to the EC or AEC for support.  Two members will go to the EOC by 9AM and
establish a net on the 147.315 repeater.  If the repeater fails the net will
fall back to SIMPLEX on the output of the repeater AND the 146.655 (PL
141.3) repeater, assuming it still works (scenario dependent)

At net call up.  Those who are participating will check into the net and get
their assignments via the net.

Expect as stated in Mr. Coleman's e-mail that the drill will be over by 1500
(3PM)

If you CAN participate,  Please send you an E_MAIL ASAP so I can inform the
city as to who is supporting.

If you have questions,  you can send me an e-mail.

I will be OUT OF TOWN for this event and Ian, N8IK will be acting EC.

73 Rick

N4ASX

From: Kevin Coleman <kevin.coleman at alexandriava.gov> 
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2023 1:06 PM
To: n4asx at cox.net; 'Don Lewis' <don.ki4d at gmail.com>
Cc: Curice Paulus <curice.paulus at alexandriava.gov>; msg
<msg at gallagher.us.com>
Subject: RE: ARC/ARES participation in Alexandria Full Scale Exercise
25-April

Good afternoon,

I wanted to touch base to see what members are slated to participate in the
City's upcoming exercise on 4/25. 

To recap, we're looking for 2 folks at the EOC and a few (2-4 depending on
interest/availability of your members) to establish one field comms location
at Fire Station 203 to relay messages back to the EOC.  Communications will
not be heavily impacted as part of the exercise scenario but figured this
was a good opportunity to partner with you all, expose folks to what you do,
and practice our comms protocols/equipment.  We will have at least one or
two injects prompting field personnel conducting damage assessments to
leverage the deployed comms team and vice versa may leverage the EOC comms
team to pass info to the field. 

Please provide names/emails of those who may be able to support and we can
provide additional information.  Let me know if anyone has any questions.
Thanks for the support!

Kevin Coleman

Office of Emergency Management

City of Alexandria

703.859.4695 Mobile

703.746.5267 Office

From: Kevin Coleman 
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2023 1:36 PM
To: n4asx at cox.net <mailto:n4asx at cox.net> ; 'Don Lewis' <don.ki4d at gmail.com
<mailto:don.ki4d at gmail.com> >
Cc: Curice Paulus <curice.paulus at alexandriava.gov
<mailto:curice.paulus at alexandriava.gov> >
Subject: RE: ARC/ARES participation in Alexandria Full Scale Exercise
25-April

Thanks Rick - we look forward to including you all in the exercise and
appreciate your participation. 

Kevin Coleman

Office of Emergency Management

City of Alexandria

703.859.4695 Mobile

703.746.5267 Office

From: n4asx at cox.net <mailto:n4asx at cox.net>  <n4asx at cox.net
<mailto:n4asx at cox.net> > 
Sent: Wednesday, March 8, 2023 3:19 PM
To: Kevin Coleman <kevin.coleman at alexandriava.gov
<mailto:kevin.coleman at alexandriava.gov> >; 'Don Lewis' <don.ki4d at gmail.com
<mailto:don.ki4d at gmail.com> >
Cc: Curice Paulus <curice.paulus at alexandriava.gov
<mailto:curice.paulus at alexandriava.gov> >
Subject: RE: ARC/ARES participation in Alexandria Full Scale Exercise
25-April

Sir,

                Wel will be happy to attend.   I will let you know who will
be at EOC so you can clear them to enter.

Best Regards

Rick

From: Kevin Coleman <kevin.coleman at alexandriava.gov
<mailto:kevin.coleman at alexandriava.gov> > 
Sent: Tuesday, March 7, 2023 2:23 PM
To: n4asx at cox.net <mailto:n4asx at cox.net> ; Don Lewis <don.ki4d at gmail.com
<mailto:don.ki4d at gmail.com> >
Cc: Curice Paulus <curice.paulus at alexandriava.gov
<mailto:curice.paulus at alexandriava.gov> >
Subject: ARC/ARES participation in Alexandria Full Scale Exercise 25-April

Rick and Don,

Alexandria is conducting a full-scale exercise on 25-April in which we are
fully activating the EOC.  The exercise scenario is a tornado event
impacting a few different areas of the City.  If you and a few folks are
available to attend, we'd have space for 1-2 at the EOC and a couple (1-3)
out in the field at one of our mock damage sites.  

We figured this would be a good opportunity for a couple of your folks to
practice, see the EOC in operation, and for EOC personnel to see what you
all do.  We'll have personnel out in the field conducting damage assessments
so may simulate some sort of brief "comms outage" forcing them to send a
message through your field team to the EOC.  Otherwise, we don't necessarily
have any comms-specific injects; rather, this would be more of an
opportunity to concurrently setup and test your systems while the EOC is
activated as opposed to involved exercise play.

I can send you more info as we get closer if this is something you can
support.  The estimated exercise times are 0900 - 1500.  I'll need a list of
names and contact info for those that are interested/available to play so we
can add them to our exercise roster and provide additional information.

Let me know if you have any questions and thanks in advance for any support.

V/R,

Kevin Coleman

Deputy Emergency Management Coordinator - Planning

Office of Emergency Management

Alexandria Fire Department

2003 Mill Rd. #3105 Alexandria, VA 22314

703.859.4695 Mobile

703.746.5267 Office

703.746.6100 24/7 Duty EM