Description
This presentation provides practices that ensure clear, concise, and complete communications for IWI at planned events.
This presentation provides practices that ensure clear, concise, and complete communications for IWI at planned events.
Reporting an IWI (Incident Within an Incident), usually a medical emergency, is often the reason for hams to support planned events.
There is a wide range of situations and expectations for radio operators, from the Boston Marathon to the Hard Rock 100.
Have a written plan that defines who, what, when, and how for IWI messages. Distribute it to all communication personnel.
Use a message template to write IWI messages. Writing a message helps the author to focus on clear, concise, and complete text. Reading a message helps lower anxiety and speed, helping the receiver to copy it correctly.
Message templates reduce the time and effort of deciding what to write. Only the text in the template fields needs to be transmitted. The receiving station just fills in the blanks.
There are several templates for reporting medical emergencies. The US military uses the 9-Line MEDIVAC template. The NWCG Wildfire system uses its 9-Line (Dutch Creek Protocol) template. The All-Hazards system uses the “8-Line” ICS-206 WF template. The NIFOG has template text on the rear inside cover. The ICS-213 General Message template can be used in many situations.
All operators copy (write) IWI traffic during the event. They can provide missing and corrected information. They provide event staff with situational awareness.
The communications team demonstrates competency before the incident. It drills with event staff drills on the plan before the start of the event. Drills are repeated when new members join the team.
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