[Artemisia] Event Emergency

[John Harrison]

Wow, thank you.

I hadn't thought of that option.  I was used to my experience in
Theatre and concert security where teh only people that used the
emegency channel were emergency personelle.  I would agree that many
people would be monitoring the preselected emergency channel, but they
wouldn't be using it for communicating.  Listening is good, but
broadcasting isn't.

The idea of using preset codes is a good one.  We would have to keep
it fairly simple since I am not sure how many people have used them,
but still it is a great solution.

My fear is what I witnessed at Estrella War this last year.  Everyone
was on teh same channel and half the time the messages for security
were interupted with requests for when the next soup run would happen.
 It was very counterproductive, especially when we were reacting to
microbursts and flying merchant pavillions.

I think the code system would have worked in that case.  Thank you for
pointing this out.

Yours in Service to the Dream,

Garath r' cath cara bardd

On 4/19/07, Jennie Fauss <jennsplace12 at msn.com> wrote:
> You've mentioned a set channel that could be used because it would lessen
> the chance of an emergency being *missed* with normal chatter. The reality
> of that would be everyone would be tuned into that channel just in *case* of
> an emergency, not being nosey but wanting to be able to help the first time
> it was called for.
>
> I've worked in two previous occupations that required the use of a hand held
> walkie talkie and a CB for transportation. We had over 60 people using one
> system and always during a 3 hour period twice a day -- I was a school bus
> driver-- Imagine the cross talk going on those airwaves. I also co-own an
> independent music production company.
>
> We had a pre-set code that would indicate all channels clear in the case of
> an emergency.
>
> Code Blue indication an announcement
> Code yellow indicated radio silence, directions were given to a minor
> emergency.
> Code red indicated all radio silence directions given for a *MAJOR*
> emergency.
>
> The person calling the code gave a description, asked for *specific* people
> to attend to the emergency. The radio was to be kept clear until someone in
> a position of authority called *all clear*
>
> An example would be the following (this was one of my own calls)
> "Code blue, code blue, all clear, code blue. There has been an accident not
> involving my vehicle at (insert the appropriate intersection here), there
> appears to be no injuries to the passengers, all buses traveling in that
> area be advised to move to the left lane to avoid debris. Please call local
> police"
>
> Someone from the main office would call and give the all clear signal at
> that point.
>
> Family and department channels sound good but how often do the different
> departments of a major camping event need to communicate with each other? It
> would be easier yes to have a designated channel for specific functions but
> then you have to carry around a list with you just to get who you want. I
> highly doubt you wanna stop during an emergency, pull out your list, change
> the channel to medical, place your emergency call and then *hope* someone
> just happens to be on the channel and not the general one.
>
> I would think it would be easy to call on a general channel, Code *insert
> non threatening color here* , would all *insert office here* please report
> immediately to *and location here* in *time frame here* for meetings as
> well.
>
> You wouldnt have to have radio silence for that, but should call it a few
> more times just in case it was missed..
>
> Just a couple of thoughts on the subject.
> I myself do have 2 sets of walkie talkies (including one pair I have to have
> an FCC license for). Every large event I've handled for the music business
> used a set of alert codes to signal radio silence..
>
> My apologies to anyone who didn't really wanna read my entire blah blah blah
> blah :)
>
> ~Fia
> Fiametta Di Celio
> The list lurker who is a comin' back
>
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