When Time Means Lives:innovative ways toshorten emergencycommunication time

• Background• Joint Information System– Surge considerations– Virtual

• Incident websites• Approval process

Topics

Background

Communication is faster than EVER before

6:28am, March 17, 2014

Broadcasting is more ubiquitous than EVER before

Delta Flight 1549, image posted to Twitter by Janis Krums one minute before first FDNY

boat in the water

And if you think this is a bad thing, it’s only going to get worse

So what canwe do about this?

Joint Information System

JICs are too small

Option 1: Regional JISOption 2: Volunteers

Shadow Lake, Oregon

"One of those trucks went across the bridge!" she told me. "Wow. Even the school bus doesn't cross that bridge. It's not designed for large trucks.

When we saw them going up that road, we wanted to run out and wave our hands, yelling wrong way, wrong way!“

-hinessight.blogs.com

Virtual JIS:

Using online tools to coordinate between teams

Incident Websites

DDOS:Distributed Denial of Service

Calgary, Edmonton

Approval Process

Incident CommandPublic Information Officer

Info ProductionOperations SectionPlanning Section

Incident Commander approves FACTS

JIS develops messages

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