News and Announcements

1) Upcoming Events
7/15 SEARS Meeting
9/2-4/2006 Paradise
10/14 Cochise Perimeter Cycling Classic

2) Paradise 27th Anniversary Outing - Just a reminder that we 
are getting closer to the annual Paradise outing and training 
event.  As always, we will be using the Labor Day weekend as a 
training event to provide an opportunity to familiarize RACES 
members with the MCU and its various capabilities.  Since it 
is still relatively new, there are a number of members who 
will benefit from this opportunity.  We will depart from Green 
Acres in Sierra Vista at 7:30 on Saturday and convoy to the 
Ghost Town of Paradise to set up and operate over the weekend.  
Bob needs a headcount for the permit from the Forest Service 
so please let him know before the 1st of August if you intend 
to join us for the weekend.  Thanks.

Training - 
On our last net we introduced a report called the Situation 
Report or SITREP.  The purpose of this report is to provide 
emergency managers in the county and also at the state Emergency 
Operations area a brief description of the situation or incident 
occurring in your community. Tonight we will introduce some of 
the types of incidents that we are interested in along with an 
event identifier to assist management to quickly categorize the 
response effort:

Event					Identifier
Air Crash				FALLEN STAR
Airborne Poison Gas		POISONED AIR
Biological Event			BAD BUG
Bombing Incident			LOUD BANG
Bridge Damage/Loss		LOST SUPPORT
Chemical Spill			POISONED GROUND
Civil Unrest/Riot			BAD MAGIC
Damaging Hail			FALLING ICE
Earthquake				ROLLING THUNDER
Flooding				TALL WATER
Forest/Ground Fire		SCORCHED EARTH
Gas Leak/Explosion		HOT AIR
High Winds				MIGHTY WINDS
Hurricane				HURRICANE
Icy Roads (Large area)		BLACK ICE
Interstate/Strategic Hwy 	BLOCKED LANE
  Blocked or damaged
Major Communications Outages	LOST COMM
   long distance or Internet
Nuclear Event			NUCLEAR GRAYSTONE
Oil Spill on water		DARK WATER
Power Outage (Major)		DARK DAY
Search/Rescue 			SECURE HAVEN
Terrorist Threat/Attack		HIDDEN SHADOW
Tornado				VIOLENT TWISTER
Train Wreck/Derailment		BROKEN TRACKS
Volcano Eruption			BRAZEN BRIMSTONE
Water Dam Broken			FAST WATER
Winter Snow Storms		WHITE BLANKET

We are also looking at using color codes to quickly identify 
status of the various utility categories such as:
 GREEN - Fully Operational, no problems reported, no further explanation
required.
 AMBER - Partially Operational, provide a short description.
 RED - Major problems, provide additional short description.
 GRAY - Information for that category is unavailable and unknown.

The color codes are generally used in preparing briefing 
charts for the incident commander and will be discussed in greater 
detail in the future.  

That's all for this evening, let's go down the roster for comments.  

Bob should be back for the next net on the 26th.