NCJ Number
128816
Date Published
1988
Length
51 pages
Annotation
This guide to disaster communications stresses the need for an agency emergency plan that is easy to understand and easy to implement with existing resources.
Abstract
The guide discusses how to keep track of the plan and how to test it. Fairly extensive discussions are devoted to the importance of utilizing amateur radio, simplex or mobile relay base radio systems, and communications vans. Basic components of damage assessment are outlined. Internal and external data systems are an integral part of an emergency disaster plan as are evacuation contingencies. Some of the specific disaster issues that are addressed in this guide include floods and water damage, hardware failures, and chemical spills. Helicopter use, logging, message centers, power, radio needs, satellites, scanners, telephones, television, and warning systems are some of the equipment incorporated into an effective agency emergency plan.