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Bid : $RACESBUL.299
Subject : RB.299 Strike Teams 1/2
TO: ALL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES VIA AMATEUR RADIO
INFO: ALL RACES OPERATORS IN CA (ALLCA: OFFICIAL)
ALL AMATEURS U.S. (@ USA: INFORMATION)
FROM: CA STATE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES (W6SIG @ WA6NWE.CA)
2800 Meadowview Rd., Sacramento, CA 95832 (916)262-1600
Landline BBS open to all: (916) 262-1657
RACESBUL.299 DATE: Nov 8, l993
SUBJECT: OPS - STRIKE TEAMS - Part 1/2
Adapted from an article by Ted Benson, WA6BEJ, Deputy RACES Radio
Officer/Mobile Operations, San Diego County RACES as published in
TAC ONE, vol. 1, issue 2.
The Strike Team, What it is, and what it isn't.
In its simplest form, the Strike Team is a group of
specialists, ready to go anywhere on short notice, and able to
bring everything they need along with them. It is to provide
short-term support until a given situation can be evaluated, and
further resources called in. Our Strike Team is designed to
operate for 72 hours without outside support. By the end of that
time, the incident will either be resolved (the record is
currently one hour), or further support will have been brought
in. This is an important part of the Strike Team concept, and the
most often misunderstood.
The resources of a Strike Team could easily be exhausted if
it was called in to every incident and expected to remain until
the entire incident was over. Instead, its function is to provide
a bridge between the initial incident and the arrival of the
larger, but slower to mobilize resources. Once further resources
have arrived, the Strike Team transitions itself out of the
picture - ready to respond to another call. This technique has
been developed to a science by the California Department of
Forestry (CDF) which fields Strike Teams all over the state. It
was their example, in part, that was used to develop our Strike
Team.
(Concluded in part 2)
EOF