Mobile Command Post/Incident Set Up

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Revision as of 23:02, 21 February 2017

See Critiques/2010-03-21/Sug/0025

When PCSAR's Mobile Command Post (SARCAR) arrives on the scene, the following should be set up.

[ ] Sign-In List. If a sign-in list has not already been started, grab a some sign-in sheets (doc-62) from the SAR Management Files Drawer (red folder labelled "Registration/Sign In"). Also grab the "doc-68 Invoice" sheets from the same folder, so members can take them as they sign-in. Put them on a clipboard which you can find in drawer below the files drawer. Set the sign-in list and expense forms somewhere in the cab of the Mobile Command Post (or later on a table outside the Mobile Command Post). Ask everyone to sign-in.

[ ] Outside Table. If weather conditions permits, set up a table outside, next to the Mobile Command Post (usually to the right of the door). Put the sign-in list on the table.

[ ] Equipment Sign-Out. Grab several "doc-16 SAR Equipment Sign-Out List" forms from the red "Sign Out, Equipment" folder SAR Management Files Drawer in the Mobile Command Post, and a clipboard from the draw below. Put it on the Outside Table.

• White boards for Briefing and ICS
• Radios
• GPS

• set up pilons to keep traffic away from bus

• drop step on back door.

• Generator set up
• photocopier/printer set up
• heater turned on

• set up cell phone booster

Unpack the following equipment and place it where it can be be readily accessed when needed:

• Water
• Big First Aid Kit
• Stretcher(s)
• Hypothermia kit
• Thermarests
• Sleeping bags
• Extra blankets

From equipment trailer

• Rough Terrain Stretcher
• Snowshoes (seasonal, depending on terrain)