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Emergency)Operations)and))Communications)Center)

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Issue 2, April 2017

Clallam)County,)Washington)

(EOC))Emergency)Operations)and)Communications)

Center)The)Lighthouse)For)Clallam)County)

Citizens)During)An)Emergency)

Changes are being made by Area Command 5 to enhance the ability of local responders in saving lives during an emergency. The new command structure will facilitate on the ground search and rescue resources at the community level, enabling information to flow up to the Area Command. The idea is to have people in communities trained so they can respond immediately in an emergency to help people locally. From there the command structure is organized to support and provide resources when local teams have reached the extent of their experience. Critical to this command structure is communication, without which the ability to respond falls apart quickly. The communications scenario described below will be a worst-case one, with the assumption that no normal communications resources are functioning and repeaters are also not working. First an overview of the emergency command structure within Clallam County for those not familiar with Area

Commands and the islands. In a catastrophic event it is conceivable that most bridges in the county will be impassable. So the county will be broken into 20 islands based on the bridges and tsunami damage. These islands (called divisions) are then arranged around five Area Commands to which sets of divisions report. Continued on page 2

New Area Command 5 Structure to Aid Communications

By Mike Becker

ARES Heads Into Busy Season By Bruce Reiter, ARES Coordinator

Finally we get a break from the last couple of months of harsh weather. Much of our time now is spent checking and repairing equipment damaged during the winter months. To this end, Herm Halbach, (KG7WMZ) the Assistant Emergency Coordinator in Port Angeles made repairs that returned the high frequency radio at PA Fire to service in the 40 and 80-meter bandwidths. Spring signals the start of a busy season of exercises and events for ARES (Amateur Radio Emergency Service. We maintained an amateur radio table at Continued on page 4

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New Area Command 5 Structure Continued from page 1 The Area Commands then report into the county EOC, which communicates with the State and other agencies. Each division within an Area Command works with Law, Fire, EMS and CERT on simplex frequencies to communicate with the island’s (or division’s) Incident Command Post. These ICP’s then communicate with the Area Command to provide a consolidated picture of what is happening in each division. Under the leadership of Fire District 3 and guidance from Asst. Chief Dan Orr, Area Command 5 is organizing a grassroots CERT Search and Rescue organization. Area Command 5 is comprised of Sequim, Diamond Point/Gardiner, Carlsborg, Deer Park and R Corner. Each of these areas is training teams within their communities on basic and advanced CERT skills to provide initial search and rescue within their own communities. Each CERT team is composed of at least 20 people. The team includes a Team Captain, Aide (number two for the team), and three Squad Leaders (two Search & Rescue and one Support Squad). Each Search and Rescue Squad is composed of a Squad Leader, an Aide, a Search Team of two people, and a Rescue Team of two individuals. The Support Squad is comprised of a Squad Leader plus a medically trained person, two rescue people and a litter bearer team of two. The intent is to have two CERT Search and Rescue squads performing their tasks at the same time, for example on each side of a street, supported by the third Support Squad. These squads will be in the field doing actual search and rescue up to the level of training they have received, including some advanced skills. If they encounter a situation they are not trained to handle, they will request help from the next level of support, which is the fire department’s engine companies. So, returning to communications let’s look at the

command hierarchy. Each squad will be under the command of a Squad Leader. The squad leaders will be under the command of the CERT Team Captain. The team captain will be communicating to an Incident Command Post (ICP), which is often located at a fire station with a FIRE Officer assigned the responsibility for CERT teams inside of that division. This Fire Officer (captain or lieutenant) will evaluate all requests and make all local decisions based upon availability of resources. It should be noted that the Incident Commander for a division is usually a Fire Officer but it could also be supervisory Law Enforcement officer, depending upon available personnel and the need to rotate out for rest. The Fire Officer will use appropriate communications to stay in contact with both those operations below and above his/or her level. The Area Command may have resources beyond those available at the division level ICP. Requests for assistance will be evaluated by the Area Command. If they cannot be accommodated, or the needed resources aren’t available, then the EOC will be notified. There, requests will be assessed and if the EOC cannot find needed resources the request will be forwarded to State, or beyond to Federal, for further action. OK, now for the communications plan that is being developed to support this structure. Let’s start with the CERT teams. All teams will need to communicate with each other. If a team of two people is searching a house, they must be in contact with the squad leader in case they need something or become trapped themselves. To provide this communication, FRS radios will be used. The FRS radios are low power so they should not interfere with other activities within the island, but powerful enough to communicate from within a structure to the squad outside. Each CERT team member will Continued on page 3

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New Area Command 5 Structure Continued from page 2 have an FRS radio. All communications between CERT teams using FRS radios within an Area Command will be on an assigned channel (frequency). Currently the assigned channel is the Area Command number. A backup frequency will be available and will be the same frequency across the county. CERT squad leaders will communicate with the CERT team captain via FRS radios when possible, or on a HAM tactical channel when at a distance. The CERT team captain will make all local decisions and only forward requests that cannot be handled locally. These requests will be forwarded via HAM radio to the ICP for the division that CERT teams are assigned to. The intent is to either have a HAM with each CERT squad or team captain, or the captain and squad leaders hold a HAM license. A prescribed simplex channel will be used for CERT team captains/squad leaders to contact each other when at distance beyond FRS or to the ICP. This is the same channel (UHF 445.825 Command – ICP or 445.850 for Tactical) used by CERT for all ICPs within Area Command 5. It will be the only HAM channel monitored by CERT. As a note, there may be other radio operators at each ICP. County radio relays are expected to be down in a major disaster. Law Enforcement, Fire, EMS and other agencies may be sharing the radio room at the ICP. These units will be using their normal assigned simplex frequencies to communicate between units and the ICP. An assigned Law Enforcement, Fire or EMS person will act as radio coordinator for their units at the ICP for in bound traffic. All requests from Law, Fire, and EMS that cannot be handled at the ICP will be forwarded to the Area Command. This out bound ICP communication will be performed via HAM radio with the assumption that ARES operators will be available to handle the HAM radios at the ICP and above. There will be one simplex channel (frequency) assigned for all ICPs to communicate to the Area Command. Many ICPs have the ability to perform digital communications. Some requests will be urgent and will need to be voice. However, some, if not many requests will have to be forwarded beyond the Area Command. It is strongly recommended that messages needing to be forwarded be translated to digital media as soon as possible, to facilitate efficient transmission up the chain. This will allow for capturing the information reliably at the source and the quick handling of each request. In addition to having digital abilities, most ICPs and Area Commands have UHF/VHF (line of sight) radios and HF (long distance communication) capabilities. These units allow for both digital and voice usage. For digital capability they have both peer to peer and Winlink options. Translating the previous paragraph, Winlink capability means an email can be sent to a Winlink station via HAM radio. At the Winlink station the email is put on the internet just as a normal email is. So an email sent via Winlink can be shared anywhere in the world, and an email received via Winlink can come from anywhere, as well. The importance of peer to peer communication can be envisioned as follows. If all Winlink stations within line of sight are incapacitated by the emergency, Winlink will not be available, and hence email cannot be sent between HAM stations or other agencies. Peer to peer is a mechanism to send email between two HAM stations when no email server or internet is available. Here’s a possible scenario for use of peer-to-peer communicating. An email is created at the ICP and forwarded to the Area Command via UHF/VHF (line of sight) peer-to-peer since Winlink is not available. An Area Command can then forward this email Continued on page 4

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New Area Command 5 Structure Continued from page 3 to the county EOC via HF using Winlink (HF can cover long distances so it should be able to make contact with a Winlink station), or peer-to-peer if it is more efficient at the time. The EOC can then forward the message to the state or any other agency via HF Winlink. This gives the ability to get digital communications to the internet and hence to any party who has access to it. To complete the communication plan, the Area Command will forward its communications to the county EOC. This will be using UHF/VHF simplex on a prescribed channel for Sequim. For Forks it may be using HF to the EOC since line of sight will not be available. What is being described here is a structure to facilitate quickly mobilizing a large group of trained people to perform initial search and rescue, and information gathering in a major emergency. This is currently being developed and tested for Area Command 5. Once proven, it could be rolled out to the other four Area Commands in the county. Additionally, the communications plan to support this structure has been described at a high level. !

ARES Heads Into Busy Season Continued from page 1 the Kids’ Fun Fest in Port Angeles aimed at parents, Scout organizations and JROTC programs. This event was followed by the Port Angeles Home Show where we assisted the Clallam County Amateur Radio Club with their booth. In both venues we shared information on future radio classes and FCC license examinations, along with the ARES emergency communications mission in Clallam County. Currently, we are preparing for a Joint Exercise involving Clallam County, the National and State Guard and the Coast Guard. Our goal is to provide acceptable radio communications from a deployed County Emergency Operations Center with the cities of Forks, Clallam Bay and the Makah Nation at Neah Bay. It is an interoperability exercise and will give us a chance to familiarize ourselves with different radio systems and equipment. The Oat Run on April 1st makes use of trails just east of Joyce. The course of this Half Marathon and 12k run winds through an area where cell phone coverage is iffy. With our expertise and equipment ARES provided emergency backup communications along the route. Finally, FCC license classes are being offered on April 1st and 8th and the FCC amateur radio exams are being given on the 15th. For further information, call Chuck Jones at 360 775-8201.!!

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New Area Command 5 Structure Continued from page 2 have an FRS radio. All communications between CERT teams using FRS radios within an Area Command will be on an assigned channel (frequency). Currently the assigned channel is the Area Command number. A backup frequency will be available and will be the same frequency across the county. CERT squad leaders will communicate with the CERT team captain via FRS radios when possible, or on a HAM tactical channel when at a distance. The CERT team captain will make all local decisions and only forward requests that cannot be handled locally. These requests will be forwarded via HAM radio to the ICP for the division that CERT teams are assigned to. The intent is to either have a HAM with each CERT squad or team captain, or the captain and squad leaders hold a HAM license. A prescribed simplex channel will be used for CERT team captains/squad leaders to contact each other when at distance beyond FRS or to the ICP. This is the same channel (UHF 445.825 Command – ICP or 445.850 for Tactical) used by CERT for all ICPs within Area Command 5. It will be the only HAM channel monitored by CERT. As a note, there may be other radio operators at each ICP. County radio relays are expected to be down in a major disaster. Law Enforcement, Fire, EMS and other agencies may be sharing the radio room at the ICP. These units will be using their normal assigned simplex frequencies to communicate between units and the ICP. An assigned Law Enforcement, Fire or EMS person will act as radio coordinator for their units at the ICP for in bound traffic. All requests from Law, Fire, and EMS that cannot be handled at the ICP will be forwarded to the Area Command. This out bound ICP communication will be performed via HAM radio with the assumption that ARES operators will be available to handle the HAM radios at the ICP and above. There will be one simplex channel (frequency) assigned for all ICPs to communicate to the Area Command. Many ICPs have the ability to perform digital communications. Some requests will be urgent and will need to be voice. However, some, if not many requests will have to be forwarded beyond the Area Command. It is strongly recommended that messages needing to be forwarded be translated to digital media as soon as possible, to facilitate efficient transmission up the chain. This will allow for capturing the information reliably at the source and the quick handling of each request. In addition to having digital abilities, most ICPs and Area Commands have UHF/VHF (line of sight) radios and HF (long distance communication) capabilities. These units allow for both digital and voice usage. For digital capability they have both peer to peer and Winlink options. Translating the previous paragraph, Winlink capability means an email can be sent to a Winlink station via HAM radio. At the Winlink station the email is put on the internet just as a normal email is. So an email sent via Winlink can be shared anywhere in the world, and an email received via Winlink can come from anywhere, as well. The importance of peer to peer communication can be envisioned as follows. If all Winlink stations within line of sight are incapacitated by the emergency, Winlink will not be available, and hence email cannot be sent between HAM stations or other agencies. Peer to peer is a mechanism to send email between two HAM stations when no email server or internet is available. Here’s a possible scenario for use of peer-to-peer communicating. An email is created at the ICP and forwarded to the Area Command via UHF/VHF (line of sight) peer-to-peer since Winlink is not available. An Area Command can then forward this email Continued on page 4

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Location, Location, Location The Value of Layering in GIS Emergency Management

By David Hull, Justa Geek This month we’ll look at “layers” in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Last month’s newsletter showed us the first layer - the map or photo image. Layers are specific kinds of information you “overlay” on the base layer map or photo to guide decision-making in an emergency setting. In a GIS System, layers look something like this:

One of the things that makes GIS powerful is the use of layers. While layering isn't unique to GIS (CAD and graphic arts applications like Photoshop also use layers), it allows GIS to display a wide array of information without some of it obscuring other parts of it, and without so much “clutter” as to become unintelligible. One of the powers of layering information comes from the ease with which layers can be "switched on and off". When a layer is "switched on" the information of that layer is overlaid on the layers below it. When layer information is grouped in logical groups, these layers allow the user to look at (or not look at) all the locational information of a specific type of "feature" like "boat ramps" in Clallam County. In the Emergency Management System GIS2017, the location of

"boat ramps" can be displayed on the map/photo image of the County (see the red dots on the layer graphic above). In a marine resupply operation to isolated geographic regions after a disaster, the locations become a critical planning resource. These same boat ramp locations, during an area evacuation by road, are just "clutter" and need to be "switched off.” Typically some layers will nearly always be switched on, and others switched off. The typical layers that are always on are the map/photo image layer, along with roads and streams layers. This is because almost all emergency operations depend on movement of resources, and obstacles to that movement. In TatukGIS

Viewer, the Viewer that is used in GIS2017, the layers are displayed in a table, on the right side of the display, called the legend. This is where layers are managed (more on this next month). The second power of layering comes from the fact that they are one on top of another, and the bottom "stuff" can be covered up by layers above them. This can be useful in showing how terrain and infrastructure are affected by something. For example when an Area Command layer is overlaid on a map or photo layer it gives a rapid visualization of what falls within that Area Command's jurisdiction. Sometimes the transparency of a layer is set to either completely obscure the underlying layers or it is set to allow the underlying layers to show through (more on this in a later article). While the "hierarchical nature of Continued on page 6

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Location Location Location Continued from page 5 layers” can be an advantage, it can also be a liability if the layers are arranged in the wrong order. We’ll discuss this more in next month’s newsletter. Even though layers manage "clutter" on your GIS display, they still cover a large amount of common information. For example the GIS2017 system has all the streams of the north Olympic Peninsula as one layer. In some scenarios, looking at the overlay of all streams is valuable, but in some scenarios we want to look closer at one stream, like the Dungeness River. The Dungeness River would be a “feature” in the streams layer. A huge power of GIS is the ability to select “features” within layers (a red dot in graphic on page 5). While most GIS information is displayed as visually aligned (overlaid) images (streams on a photomap), some detail information available to the GIS user is in table format. Things like names of streams or roads, or quality of roads are stored in tables and are displayed on a feature-by-feature basis. Again in TatukGIS, the feature information, like names, is displayed in a table on the right side of the display, called “Selected”. This table data is another method to manage “clutter” that would obscure underlying detail of the display if it were overlaid on the map area. Next month we’ll look at Projects (assembled groups of layers), the Legend panel, layer features, and feature selection.

Clallam’s Communication Ace In The Hole

By David Hull, Justa Geek The Incident Command Vehicle (ICV) is a rolling emergency communications system capable of complete “infrastructure down” communications, from first responder dispatch to satellite internet connectivity. In any emergency situation, from winter storms to a Cascadia event, the ICV is an all-purpose communications hub capable of linking many critical communication modes while providing its own power (and potentially powering collocated functions).!

Within the ICV are public safety radios to talk to fire, law enforcement, and medical responders. It also has ham radio capabilities. The ACU1000 located in the ICV makes it possible to cross connect radios on most all VHF/UHF frequencies, thus enabling all responders to communicate in remote field locations. The ICV also supports a virtual private network connection to the secure PSRN (The Public Safety Radio Network, formerly OPSCAN), allowing full PSRN capability to be remoted to locations where it normally would not be available. The PSRN and internet capabilities are available over either 4G cellular connectivity or satellite. This broadband (internet & PSRN) capability can be shared locally to the ICV over WiFi or Ethernet, making it a critical building block of either “infrastructure down” Emergency Management or “remote location” on scene Incident Command. With all this capability comes corresponding complexity. Many of the systems onboard require a significant level of “technical savvy” and are quickly “perishable.” Continued on page 7

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Clallam’s Communication Ace In The Hole

Continued)from)page)6!That’s due to their complex interfaces and their constant update cycles of various subsystems. This drives several needs, first for staffing of qualified operators (Tech Specialists), and secondly for constant test and exercise of the equipment to assure all is working. During an emergency is a poor time to find some subsystem isn’t working due to maintenance needs, like firmware upgrades. If you are interested in volunteering as a Technical Specialist (COMT) for the ICV please contact David Sue, our COML. Off shore bottom conditions can increase or decrease the height of the wave. The shape of stream valleys and the direction the wave hits the shore can funnel water into amazingly higher waves. The normal tide height when the tsunami hits, as well as the influence of weather conditions also play a role. Assume the wave is 40-feet high at Kalaloch. Most predictions say a wave in the Strait will be 75% of that seen on ocean beaches, so we can expect a 30-foot wave in Port Angeles. So, let’s take an example from the 2016 tide table for the City of Port Angeles. The table shows there is a minus 2.3 foot low tide (-2.3) at 0857 hours (8:57 AM) on July 4, 2016. Assuming the 30-foot tsunami hits at this time, the minus tide will lower the crest of the tsunami by 2.3 feet yielding a 27.7-foot wave. However, on July 5, 2016, at 0237 hours (2:37 AM) 18 hours later, at the same place in the City of Port Angeles, the same tide table shows a plus 9.5 foot high tide. Assuming the 30-foot tsunami hits at this time, the plus tide will raise the crest by 9.5-feet yielding a 39.5-foot wave. So, the same tsunami height predicted by scientists, yields an 11.8-foot difference in water level over a period of 18-hours, due only to the tide we would normally expect. Now, let’s assume we are looking at the same City of Port Angeles tide table for December 14, 2016 at 1422 hours (2:22 PM) and the tide is +8.5 PLUS the water level in the Strait is 4-feet above normal and the northeast wind that’s blowing holds water in the harbor. A coastal flood warning is in effect. The tsunami arrives and we have 30 feet of water coming into a confined Port Angeles Harbor where the tide is already 12.5-feet high. It is coming at 60 miles an hour. Suddenly, the 30-foot tsunami is now 42.5-feet high. If you and your friends evacuated to 40 feet, you are going to be embarrassed. Hopefully just wet. Scientists can predict how much water might be coming from a tsunami BUT the wave adds to the depth of the water already here. Since that varies on a minute-by-minute basis, they can’t predict the ultimate height of the tsunami without knowing the day, time, location and weather when the wave arrives. Your objective is NOT to see who gets their feet least wet. Go to high ground and live. It may take 36-hours for seas to calm before it’s safe to go back to the shore. Be prepared to shelter where you are for at least that time.

Tsunami We Can’t Predict Wave Height

In Port Angeles By Jim Buck Every time I present my program about the Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquake and ensuing tsunami, someone demands to know how high the tsunami will be. Sometimes, when I can’t answer the question, people get upset. After working on this emergency for ten years, I now know why we can’t tell you. Here is why. Current Department of Natural Resources Division of Geology and Earth Resources projections predict the tsunami will be 40-feet at Kalaloch, on the Washington Coast. Common sense says if it is 40-feet there, it will be 40-feet everywhere. BUT, that is not necessarily so.

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Communication’s 3 Rules of 3 (continued from Issue 1) By David Hull, Justa Geek

The First Rule: Communications must provide information to three communities: (a) the field and responders for both intel gathering and command & control, (b) the Up Chain (in our case WADEM and/or FEMA) for coordination, command & resupply and (c) the public, to provide information, avoid panic & civil unrest, as well as to coordinate public participation like distribution points & evacuations. Each of these communities have different communications mechanisms, but share a need for timely and accurate information transfer. Each of these communities provides different obstacles and

opportunities to the communications planner during an emergency. Typically, communications with field responders are analog voice narrow band FM radio. Some modern systems use digital messaging like vehicle mounted Mobile Data Terminals. These digital systems are most often internet (or other fixed wireless network) dependent, and may not be operational during disastrous

emergencies. Most of the voice radio systems use repeaters to avoid blind spots in communications, since typical voice systems are VHY/UHF and are “line of sight”. Line of Sight means, they don’t “see well” through obstructions like mountains or the earth when distances become “over the horizon.” Because many disastrous emergencies impact the operation of repeaters, through damage to towers and/or power infrastructure, normal voice radio operations like Pencom Dispatch, may not be operational, or may require modified procedures and/or deployed emergency repeaters to provide viable communications with field responders. Each of these critical systems will need pre-planned “workarounds” for expected damage under disaster conditions. Typical communications with field responders are “point-to-point” or “point-to-multipoint” communications. Point-to-point communications are one sender to one receiver and vice versa. Point-to-multipoint communications are also called “broadcast.” Broadcast communications are one sender to “anyone listening”. Typically, dispatch can be either point-to-point or broadcast. Point-to-point would be a dispatcher calling a specific responder by call sign. A broadcast by dispatch would be an informational message for all responders on the dispatch net, such as imposition of temporary radio silence for all units not involved in a tactical situation. Each of these situations drives different approaches to establishing first responder communications during damaging emergencies. Continued on page 9

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Communication’s 3 Rules of 3 (continued from page 8)

“Up Chain” communications, or talking to higher levels of Command (WADEM or FEMA etc.) during emergencies entails a different set of problems. Up Chain entities are often geographically removed by long distances, with interdicting terrain that precludes VHF/UHF line-of-sight radios. Up Chain communications often require “hard copy” type documents (emails, images, text messages etc.) for accurate transfer of complex information of “non plain language text” (complex nomenclature of equipment, or geographic coordinates etc.). Hard copy also provides accurate audit trails for follow up and post incident recovery operations, like reimbursement. While these communications are often more demanding, they are usually (at least early in the emergency) of lower volume than field comms. The combination of these characteristics often drives complex and expensive technical solutions like satellite radio communications. Some Ham radio (ARES) solutions also support this area. !The third community highly dependent on communications during emergencies is the public. It’s the community all the rest of Emergency Management is intended to support. The public information system for emergency communication is almost entirely mono directional broadcast. Emergency management responders “talk” to the community, “the public.” While “listening” to the community is valuable in emergencies, it is also very difficult, to nearly impossible during early response phases of a disaster when public information is most critical. The need to communicate evacuation instructions, assembly and shelter locations, and distribution point information during the early stages of disaster response is common. Failure to communicate effectively during the early response can, and usually does, aggravate a bad situation. Bad, wrong, or no communications during critical hours early in a disaster, fosters rumors, creates civil unrest and wastes precious resources. The sooner you communicate effectively to the community the smaller the problems are. !Communication to the community under disaster conditions has its own set of unique problems. Maybe the biggest hurdle for emergency managers is that we don’t own the means of communication. While the EAS (emergency alert system) ties into commercial radio and television systems, we don’t own the actual transmitters and towers. Damage to private infrastructure, like local radio stations, occurs just like damage to government repeaters. Antenna towers come down and power is interrupted. Normal methods of communicating between emergency operations centers and radio stations (like telephone lines) may be damaged. Again without preplanned workarounds, expecting business as usual communications is a “formula for disaster during disaster.” !Next month we will look at “Rule 2.” !

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How Much Stuff is Enough? Emergency Preparedness Tips

By Penelope Linterman, Program Coordinator!

When considering how much reserve groceries, household supplies, pharmaceuticals, and other necessities to keep on hand, consider how the Alaskans do it. In Alaska, all supplies arrive by barge every week and not everything is brought on every barge weekly. To plan for delays caused by weather, strikes and breakdowns, residents there keep a minimum of six weeks supplies on hand at all times. When they think of the complications that can compromise their supply line, they must plan ahead significantly. Where we live, many people go to the store every day to purchase what they need for that day or at least they go every week to “stock up.” While it is true that our supplies arrive daily on the Olympic Peninsula, there are events that can interrupt that constant supply and cause us to be without for a short time or, in the event of a catastrophic earthquake, a much longer period of time. Presently, our resupply occurs only via trucks travelling the highways. !

There are massive warehouses as far as you can see where supplies are gathered for distribution in the valley between Kent and Renton. This is the transportation center of arrival for trucks, trains, airplanes, and shipping containers from all over the United States and the world. This hub supplies Alaska as well as our area and is subject to interruption by a mega quake followed by a tsunami. In addition, we expect that large portions of our local highways and bridges will be “broken” or impassable due to pavement displacement after a major quake. Our connections to the giant shipping depots in Western Washington will be broken for a long period of time and new ways of bringing in essential supplies will have to be set up. It will take time to reroute supplies to convey them via water or by air bridges to our location. In the meantime, we must make do with what we have on hand at the time of the earthquake. !

For these reasons, we are recommending that all citizens living on the Olympic Peninsula have a minimum of 30 days supply of food, water, pharmaceuticals, pet supplies and other necessities on hand at all times. Every household should have a way to collect and purify water. It isn’t possible to store enough water at your home and keep it fresh without having a method of purification. We are developing a webpage to share ideas on water purification. More will be added to this link soon: http://www.clallam.net/EmergencyManagement/water.html If you’re struggling with what to collect and how to manage the cost, we have a number of “kit lists” on the website that provide guidance for accomplishing these tasks. Start small and plan to do one thing each week. That might be buying two extra canned food items every time you shop. Continued on page 11

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How Much Stuff is Enough? (continued from page 10) !Canned items have water included so this is another source of a daily water supply. Canned items last indefinitely despite the “sell date” stamped on the can. If the can isn’t bulging, it’s probably okay to eat. Here’s a link to the kit lists:

http://www.clallam.net/EmergencyManagement/grabngo.html

Meals for two for seven days and it all fits in a 6 gallon bucket sealed with a special lid:

Ready.gov (https://www.ready.gov/ ) has an enormous amount of tips including Twitter and Facebook accounts to join so you receive updated information constantly. You can also sign up to receive tips through your email, which would be a continual reminder to keep you on track and focused for building your stockpile. Surround yourself with information and continue to pursue preparedness so you will be as comfortable and secure when a disaster occurs as you are on a daily basis. Remember, you can thrive with what you have on hand at the moment of disaster.

Happy prepping!

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ISNAP Document Training Clallam County EOC TBD

Kathleen Reiter/Trainer

April 6

What are all these yellow pieces of paper?

Clallam County EOC

April 20

Second Operational Period “Help me help you help me”

Clallam County EOC Prep for JeffCo-Clallam Interoperability Exercise

*Transfer of Positions *Briefings *Planning “P” (2nd OP)

May 4

Interoperability PREP Clallam County EOC Notebooks

*WebEOC *Position Ownership *Travel Logistics *Position Checklists

May 11

Jefferson County – Clallam County Interoperability Exercise

Jefferson County EOC Functional EX Design Team: John Crook, Larry Berger, Pat Garrett

May 18 Emergency Support Function #10 Hazardous Materials

Clallam County EOC

Seminar w/Table Top

Cat Dutton – Washington State EMD-HazMat Resource Specialist

June 1

Emergency Support Function #20 Military Interface

Clallam County EOC Seminar w/Table Top

??State Guard ,USCG, and National Guard Liaisons

June 9,10,11,12

WANG Interoperability Exercise Clallam County Sites Full Scale EX

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Anthony""will"brief"on"WebEOC/W.I.S.E."updates,"""Jamye"will"brief"on"Pre5Deployment"updates,""Penny"will"brief"on"SCIP%updates"as"available"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""2017.03.16:jw_updated"

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July 6

Emergency Support Function #12 Energy

Clallam County EOC

Presentation Larry Morris, PUD Patty Morris , PUD

July 10

MGT 347 ICS Forms

Clallam County EOC FEMA Training Texas A&M – Engineering Extension Service

July 20 Emergency Support Function #7 Resource Management

Clallam County EOC Presentation Resource Corps Coordinators from Clallam County