BEECN Program Organization: Difference between revisions
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== BEECN and PBEM == | == BEECN and PBEM == | ||
Guidelines governing the relationship between PBEM and the BEECN program: | |||
# The BEECN program is sited in and managed by the Portland Bureau of Emergency Management (PBEM) with participation from Portland Fire & Rescue (PF&R). | # The BEECN program is sited in and managed by the Portland Bureau of Emergency Management (PBEM) with participation from Portland Fire & Rescue (PF&R). | ||
# PBEM has sole authority to determine BEECN volunteer membership and who is responsible for maintaining and deploying a BEECN. | # PBEM has sole authority to determine BEECN volunteer membership and who is responsible for maintaining and deploying a BEECN. | ||
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# The '''[[BEECN Sites|BEECN site]]''' is the geographical location where Portlanders are encouraged to go 24 to 48 hours following an earthquake. For example: school grounds, a park, or a parking lot. These are the sites that appear on published BEECN maps. | # The '''[[BEECN Sites|BEECN site]]''' is the geographical location where Portlanders are encouraged to go 24 to 48 hours following an earthquake. For example: school grounds, a park, or a parking lot. These are the sites that appear on published BEECN maps. | ||
# The '''[[BEECN Caches|BEECN equipment cache]]''' associated with the site is located within a five block radius of the BEECN site. It contains all the equipment that volunteers need to deploy the BEECN. | # The '''[[BEECN Caches|BEECN equipment cache]]''' associated with the site is located within a five block radius of the BEECN site. It contains all the equipment that volunteers need to deploy the BEECN. | ||
# '''[[BEECN Volunteers|BEECN volunteers]]''' are the personnel associated | # '''[[BEECN Volunteers|BEECN volunteers]]''' are the personnel associated with a BEECN and are trained to deploy the BEECN program 24 to 48 hours following an earthquake. It takes a minimum of two volunteers to operate a BEECN. | ||
Similarly, fire station resources in the BEECN system are broken into three elements: | |||
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<br/> | # The '''fire station''', as the name implies, is the Portland Fire & Rescue facility where the [[Operations at Fire Stations#Orange Go-Kits|VHF Orange "Go-Kit"]] is stored. Every fire station also has an antenna on its roof that hooks up to the VHF kit. | ||
# The '''Orange "Go-Kit"''' is the amateur radio set operators use to communicate with the radio room in the EOC. Each Orange Kit also includes a handheld UHF radio that can receive radio traffic from nearby BEECNs. | |||
# There are two types of '''fire station volunteers'''. There are UHF handheld radio operators, who operate the same [[BEECN Caches#UHF Handheld BEECN Radio|push-to-talk radio]] that BEECN volunteers do. They pass BEECN messages to the HAM radio volunteers, who then relay those messages to the EOC. | |||
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== Responsibilities of PBEM to the BEECN Program == | == Responsibilities of PBEM to the BEECN Program == | ||
