[FLARES] **ECOMM MESSAGE** 08/31/04-F-D

[Chris Myers]

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA
AUXILIARY COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE
A Citizen Corps Group


**ECOMM MESSAGE**

The Indian River County Division of Emergency Management, Auxiliary
Communication Services is at Level Two Alert as of 12:00 hours Tuesday,
August 31, 2004.

Level Two Alert: Hurricane Watch/Warning will be issued for Indian River
County and the operation area.  SKYWARN activation is High
 Command Centers,
EOC and Shelter activation Thursday


 EVENT INFORMATION:
** RELEASE INFORMATION FROM IRCEOC**
The time of tracking Hurricane Frances is over and the time for preparing
has started.  Hurricane Frances will be making landfall somewhere along the
east coast on Saturday.  The current wind field timing will be as follows:
Saturday-3-am tropical storm winds begin
Saturday-5-am-high end tropical storm force winds-hurricane force winds
Saturday 8am-2:00pm-Most intense winds of this system will occur
Saturday 2:00pm -7:pm-Winds will reduce.
This is the best time line at this time.  This will change as the forecast
changes.  It is unknown if we will have the most intense winds, but we need
to plan for this.  The ridge remains in place and there is no doubt in my
mind that we will have hurricane force winds.
Shelters will be opened at noon tomorrow, but evacuation out of Florida may
be the better answer.  Mandatory evacuations for the barrier island and
mobile homes will occur tomorrow beginning at noon.  Limited shelters are
available because of the intense winds.  We will have routes for evacuation
tomorrow.  Remember, the entire east coast of Florida is going to evacuate
because of this storm.  School is closed Thursday and Friday.  A list of
shelters will be available in the morning.
This is a serious situation.  If this system makes landfall near Indian
River County, it will be the strongest hurricane in our area in history.  If
you stay at home, make sure your structure is safe for the most intense
winds.
This is a serious situation and everyone should be prepared for an extreme
event.
Nathan McCollum
Indian River County Emergency Management
** END OF RELEASE**

ACS:
08/31/04 09:30hrs    County DEM staff request alert status change

08/31/04 12:00hrs    Alert Level 1 ACS Staff on alert
 begin notification of
your teams

08/31/04 19:30hrs    Alert Level 1 ACS Staff on alert
 Mission packages
being designed to support area operation.
09/01/04 09:30hrs    Alert Level 1 ACS Staff on alert
 Mission packages
being designed to support area operation.
09/01/04 14:00hrs    Alert Level 2 ACS on alert
 Mission packages have been
designed to support the operation area.

ESF-2  ACS. “4” Operation centers, “1” county shelter, “4” ARC shelters with
total staff of “16” operators for the first operational
                       period.  “16” additional operators for the second
operational period.
            CAP traffic relay from EOC to Command Net
 Additional tasking

CAP/ESO advise on number of MRO and BCUT staff
                       available for shelter radio operation in Indian River
County.
            MARS traffic relay from EOC to Command Net
            SHARES traffic relay from EOC to NCS
            SEDAN traffic relay from EOC to State Warning Point and NHC
            SKYWARN traffic relay to EOC and NWS Networks
ESF-9  CAP “1” UDF/SAR Team for ELT area operation tasking by AFCC and State
EOC.
             County DEM tasking with State EOC for CAP support via ECO Team.
ESF-17 Task to ACS Command by RRT Coordinator
 status pending


ESF-2 Coordinators and Officer please send you next SITREP by 09/01/04 at
19:00hrs local.  In your SITREP include name of all operators that will need
access around, in and out of the county. “First, Last, assignment and call
sign”  This is needed NTL 09/01/04 19:00hrs
  Any ESF-2 that may have
additional manpower issues please include on your next report.

Tasking for operational periods will be 24hrs shifts from 17:00hrs day 1 to
17:00hrs day 2.  Two “2” communication operators per station and or mobile
platform in each operation period.

Mutual Aid Request
08/31/04  21:50hrs.  Brevard County, Shelter Assignment, Amateur Radio
Operator.   "Status Pending"

Passable EOC movement to safer location
 more to come

Back up mobile Tower unit will be picked up from Aluma Tower on Thursday for
county ACS operation.
DCAT, COMM-2 Tower and generator unit will be moved to Special Need Shelter
“SRHS” Thursday.

Chris Myers, Coordinator
Indian River County Auxiliary Communication Services
CAP-SER-FL-078
FL-078 has the following ES qualified resources available for missions
within Group 4:

Total Emergency Services members: “8”
ES member breakdown:  Cadets “2”, Senior Members “6”

Additional Assets:
CPF 837 Aircraft N99941 at COI
*	Available hours to next 100 hr maintenance – 93
*	IFR Certified, GX55 GPS, L-Tronics DF, Tait CAP Radio
*	Aircraft sensor status (none)
*	Squaks (Oil temp gauge fluctuates, DME is hard to set)

CPF 822 Aircraft N98120 at FPR (Squadron HQ)
*	Available hours to next 100 hr maintenance
*	IFR Certified, GX55 GPS, L-Tronics DF, Tait CAP Radio
*	Aircraft sensor status (none)
*	Squaks (GPS inoperative)

Elper condition tested good on 30 August 2004.

Various VHF radios are available for missions as well as cell phones for
Emergency Services personnel.  Several of the personnel
also have Nextel direct-connect capabilities.

CAP Lt. Charles Shinn, ESO
SER-FL-078
ARES:
There will also be a County Resource Net at 7:30 PM each evening on the
145.130 repeater starting Wednesday, September 2nd and until the alert level
is lowered.  Please inform Bud, WA4ASJ of your status and availability to
support the operation.

Monitor the 145.130 repeater frequency at all times during this alert.

Bud Holman, Emergency Coordinator
Indian River County ARES
NTS:
No report
Sherri Brower
NTS Coordinator
SKYWARN:
Treasure Coast Weather Network is in standby mode. I expect to begin with
hourly updates on Friday morning concerning
The situation with Frances on the 146.775 repeater. Base station operation
will move to the Indian County EOC when
Necessary.

Wayne Burkett
SKYWARN Coordinator
SHARES:
ALCON

The following Groups should go to HURCON II at this time:

2, 4, 6, 7, 9

The following Groups should go to HURCON III

1, 3, 5, 8, 10

Hurricane Frances is now moving towards Florida and the only variable now is
exactly where it will strike and what path it will follow after it does. The
is no place in the state right now that is not vulnerable. HOWEVER do not
focus on the center line projection focus on the "CONE of PROBABILITY" and
remember that hurricanes are not a single point on the map. This storm is
HUGE with Hurricane force winds extending out 80 miles and TS winds
extending out almost 200 miles. There is little hope of avoiding a Florida
landfall.

The ECO team will be deploying to TLH shortly and mutual aid is moving at
this time also.

Beginning today all email directed to me should be sent to
capstateeoc at fleoc.org We will publish phone numbers later today for the
various EOC positions.

We should expect tasking from the state for support to the evacuation.

REMEMBER today is your free day... get yourselves and your families PREPARED
and then concentrate on unit preparedness. If you are in a mandatory
evacuation area DO NOT stay behind to be a resource. There are plenty of CAP
personnel to handle the response, take care of yourselves!!!

Also remember not to self dispatch. Only the ECO or the Wing Commander can
okay a deployment, there are NO EXCEPTIONS.

More information to follow.

CM


Maj. Bill Rice
SHARES Radio Officer
MARS:
No report

NNN0YGY, NNN0ILA
MARS Radio Officer
REACT:
The Florida Council of REACT Teams remains at level two.

Teams on the East Coast and in Central Florida please provide your status.

Teams near the West Coast please provide your availability for possible
mutual aid response.

Michael Cauley, President
Florida Council of REACT Teams
SEDAN:
Indian River County node operational and passing traffic to State Warning
Point

Team is standing by and will deploy to Indian River if needed to handle
traffic to State Warning Point after landfall.

Tom Nolan KD4MWO
FLA-SEDAN NET MANAGER
CCT County Communication Team:
Closely monitoring and developing support staff for IRMH Command Center.

John Conefrey
RRT Coordinator
COMMUNICATION DATA:
TCWN/SKYWARN Net operations on 146.775MHz, No CTCSS, call KA1VRF
ACS Planning/operations 153.920MHz Toned; 444.825MHz, Toned, call ACS
Command
ARES Net operations 145.130MHz as needed, No CTCSS, call WA4ASJ or W4RCL
ARES Shelter operation 146.640MHz starting 12:00 Thursday call W4OT or
Indian River County EOC.
DCAT Operations 30.760MHz as needed, Toned, call DCAT Command

Florida State DCAT Equipment and Assets:
Unit ID                Status                  Location
Note
COMM-2         Tasked       Vero Beach, FL                 Dispatched to
SRHS on Thursday for support.
APRS         Standing-By    Vero Beach, FL

Next SITREP will be 09/01/04 at 19:30hrs local.

End of SITREP

Chris A. Myers
Coordinator
Indian River County
Auxiliary Communication Services
Website: www.ircacs.org

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