ARES supporting the American Red Cross (ESF-6 Role)

All,

Nine types of messages have been identified as necessary to pass during a telecom infrastructure outage (Red Cross forms in parenthesis):

 Short messages of few words (passed over a voice circuit)
 Moderately to lengthy general messages (Red Cross ICS213 General Message)
 Logistics requests (Red Cross Disaster Requisition 6409)
 Unaccompanied minor reports (Unaccompanied Minor and Separated Child Form)
 Safe and well (legacy as “Health and Welfare”) registration (Safe and Well Registration)
 Emergency welfare inquiry (Emergency Welfare Inquiry)
 Client incident / death (Client Incident Report)
 Staff Request (Staff Request)
 Contact Roster (ARC ICS203)

The ICS forms adapted for use by the Red Cross include:

 Incident Briefing 201
 Incident Objectives 202
 Contact Roster 203
 Work Assignment 204
 Organization Chart 207
 Safety Message 208
 General Message 213
 Daily Schedule 230
 Incident Open Tracing 233
However, the information that must be passed during a telecom infrastructure outage include
that managed by the General Message 213, Work Assignment 204 plus six Red Cross specific
forms.

It only takes a minute each to review these template/forms in Winlink and/or NBEMS (Fldigi).

Thank you.

V/R (73),
Guy Mallery W6MSU (EC)