Time To Practice!!!!!

If a fire is coming, can you quickly notify EVERY ONE of your neighbors?  After an earthquake or a sudden evacuation can you tell First Responders, We've got 4 hurt and 10 missing?

Each year in October, Amateur Radio Emergency Services (ARES) conducts a drill of emergency communications.  This year, South Skyline Emergency Organization is organizing a  REGIONAL DRILL SATURDAY MORNING 11/02/2024.
 
Our goals: 

  1. Every neighborhood should try and contact ALL their residents as quickly as possible and make sure everyone is "ok".
  2. Every neighborhood should try and send their results to a central location (in a real emergency this would be a Fire Department Departmental Operations Center (DOC). 
  3. If folks are not part of an organized neighborhoods, they can participate with just their very immediate neighbors, as a kind of "mini neighborhood".  You should have at least a few neighbors who know about and help one another out.

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Can we reach over half the people in the entire South Skyline Area? It would be cool!

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Before 11/2: Update your neighborhood directory, and consider how you will reach out to your neighbors: messaging, email, phone, radio, in person. Keep in mind in a real emergency you'll have to try a couple of things, and be prepared to do that too during the drill.


Morning of 11/2:

<Details coming soon!> 


At 10:30 try to complete this sentence: "My neighborhood, <name of neighborhood>, has P people, and we've reached Q of them and they're ok."   You should know beforehand how many people there are. If you can reach someone, call their family "ok". If you can't reach them, call them "missing". Collate these answers across your neighborhood using GMRS / MURS Radio, or whatever works!  

Once you've gotten the count of people you've reached, send it back to <tbd>.   For this drill we'll assume you have no phone service. Since it is a drill, please don't call 911.  Send your message back using any of the following, listed in order of preference:​

<tbd>


Stay tuned for more instructions to come!











Regional Drill November 2, 2024 10:30AM