Community Preparedness Team Strategic Plan: Difference between revisions
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| style="width: 20%" |'''Work with Portland Fire & Rescue on a comprehensive BEECN communications plan.''' | | style="width: 20%" |'''Work with Portland Fire & Rescue on a comprehensive BEECN communications plan.''' | ||
| | |Though the chain of BEECN communications from BEECN cache to fire station to EOC is well understood, there is little clarity around what the EOC can or will do with radio traffic from BEECNs. Portland Fire & Rescue could have an important part to play in this plan, since possibly some of the radio traffic (e.g. life safety traffic) should be relayed only to the fire station level and not to the EOC. | ||
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|'''Merge the BEECN and NET programs.''' | |'''Merge the BEECN and NET programs.''' | ||
| | |Though NETs and BEECN volunteers will likely depend on each other after an earthquake, the programs have been artificially partitioned since 2013. This siloization has eroded situational awareness between the two volunteer responder groups, and has placed medical supplies in the hands of BEECN volunteers even though BEECN volunteers, unlike NETs, do not receive any mandatory medical training of any kind. | ||
This objective requires more discussion over how NETs and BEECNs share responsibility, and how a BEECN crew decides what NET to associate with (as well as what to do if no NET is active near them). Nonetheless, combining NETs and BEECNs into unified teams will strengthen both programs. | |||
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|'''Purchase and install more permanent BEECN cache boxes as resources permit.''' | |'''Purchase and install more permanent BEECN cache boxes as resources permit.''' | ||
| | |Permanent BEECN cache boxes are steel and concrete and significantly more secure and durable than the older metal boxes. Currently, PBEM maintains six of them, and most of them are sited in East Portland. Though they occasionally get vandalized, none of them have been forced open. | ||
They are cost prohibitive, however. Manufacturing and installing one costs approximately $20,000. However, as grant and other resources permit, PBEM should consider installing more of these in District 1. | |||
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