Incident Action Planning

A Skill Building Exercise

Who is this man ?

What is his significance to
incident planning ?
Plans are nothing.
Planning is everything!

Who is this man ?

What is his significance to
incident planning ?
No plan ever survives
first contact with the
enemy!

Things Ive Often Heard:

We do this event every
year.
Its such a simple event. We
dont need a plan.
Thanks. More paperwork.
Just what I needed!
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Wisconsin ARES/RACES
is a NIMS compliant
organization
Thats why we ..
Complete basic NIMS training.
Complete basic ICS training.

Incident Action Planning

Every incident must have an
Incident Action Plan (IAP)
that:

Incident
Action
Plan

Specifies the incident

objectives.
States the activities.
Covers a specified timeframe,
called an operational period.
May be oral or written.
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Elements of an Incident Action

Plan
Every IAP must have
four elements:
What do we want to do?
Who is responsible for
doing it?
How do we communicate
with each other?
What is the procedure if
someone is injured?
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Incident Action Planning Tools

Wisconsin
ARES/RACES
Generic Incident
Action Plan.

Incident Action Planning Tools

Incident Action Planning Forms:
IAP Form

Form Name

ICS 201

Incident Briefing

ICS 202

Incident Objectives

ICS 203

Organization Assignment List

ICS 204

Assignment List

ICS 205

Incident Radio Communications Plan

ICS 206

Medical Plan

ICS 207

Organizational Chart

ICS 209

Incident Status Summary

ICS 210

Status Change Card

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Incident Action Planning Tools

Incident Action Planning Forms:
IAP Form

Form Name

ICS 211

Check-In List

ICS 213

General Message

ICS 214

Unit Log

ICS 204

Assignment List

ICS 215

Operational Planning Worksheet

ICS 215a

Incident Action Plan Safety Analysis

ICS 216

Radio Requirements Worksheet

ICS 217

Radio Freq Assignment Worksheet

ICS 218

Support Vehicle Inventory

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Incident Action Planning Tools

Incident Action Planning Forms:
IAP Form

Form Name

ICS 220

Air Operations Summary

ICS 221

Demobilization Plan

ICS 226

Individual Personnel Rating

ICS 308

Resource Order Form

ICS 309

Radio Communications Log

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A Tabletop Exercise
This exercise takes place in the midcentral ARES/RACES District.
It takes place in contemporary times.
The timeline is compressed.
We may stop time for discussion.
There are no stupid questions or
wrong answers.
The outcome in is your hands!
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A Tabletop Exercise
Badger County

Kettle Moraine
County

Mostly rural
1 Stand-alone
repeater
15 A/R members
7 Technician
5 General
3 Advanced/Extra

Largely rural
1 City of 5000
1 IRLP repeater
25 A/R members
13 Technician
8 General
4 Advanced/Extra

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The Area of Operations

Badger County

Kettle Moraine County

Mostly rural

Largely rural

7 small & medium towns

8 towns & villages

1 Stand-alone repeater

1 City of Cranberry (5000 pop)

15 A/R trained members

1 IRLP repeater

7 Technician

25 A/R members

5 General

13 Technician

3 Advanced/Extra

8 General

Usually meets monthly

4 Advanced/Extra
Meets monthly

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The Area of Operations

Mid Central A/R District

Encompasses 6 counties

Staffed with 8 volunteers

70% rural

4 Technicians

20% suburban

2 General

10% urban

2 Advanced/Extra

8 Repeaters
5 VHF & 3 UHF

WEM Ham Shack

1 nearby WECOMM repeater

Capabilities
HF single sideband
VHF & UHF FM
Winlink 2000

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Organize The Group

We need:
A Badger County A/R Group.
A Kettle Moraine County A/R Group.
A Mid-Central DEC Group.
A WEM HamShack Group.

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State Of The World

Brewers 3-2 in NL Champ Series.
Tea Party candidates well positioned in
Wisconsin governors race.
Computer hacker group known as
Rampant Rangers threaten internet
chaos.
Iranian nuclear power plant goes
online.
October brings colder temps.
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Day One (evening)

Inject Message #1:
Badger County EC hears Kettle Moraine
County EC on the Kettle Moraine
repeater. This reminds him that an
email message sent earlier bounced
even through the email address was
correct.

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Day Two (mid-day)

Inject Message #2:
Kettle Moraine County EC hears two
people on the local repeater talking
about intermittent problems accessing
websites. He turns on his computer and
connects to the ARRL website without
difficulty.

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State of the World

News Bulletin !
Multiple network news outlets report that
the Rampant Rangers are taking credit
for many denial of service attacks
against commercial websites and claim
to have disrupted several military
networks. They promise more attacks
in the future. Pentagon representatives
have no comment to the report.
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Day Two (evening)

Inject Message #3:
The Kettle Moraine County IRLP repeater
abruptly connects to then disconnects
from several seemingly random
repeaters in foreign counties.
The Badger County EC while talking with
his military son overseas on Skype
suddenly looses his connection
and
can not restore it.
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State of the World

Brewers win NL Championship !
Polls show republican candidate
leading Wisconsin governors race.
CNN & Fox News report that Microsoft,
Norton, McAfee, and other
executives are holding meetings
regarding sudden, unexplained
computer network failures.
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State of the World

Rampant Rangers claim they will soon
take complete control of the internet.
Temperatures remain uncommonly
cool for late October.
Al-Qaeda announces support for the
Rampant Rangers and promises
financial support.

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Day Three (mid-morning)

Inject Message #4:
The Kettle Moraine County public safety
network, a multimillion dollar 800 mhz
trunked radio system, suddenly fails.
The Kettle Moraine County IRLP repeater
can not connect to other nodes.
The WECOMM repeater will not connect to
the rest of the WECOMM network.

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Day Three (early afternoon)

Inject Message #5:
The Kettle Moraine County emergency
manager calls the County EC and asks if
ARES/RACES can provide backup
communications between the countys 11
fire stations and the county communications
and dispatch center from 6pm to 6am.

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Day Four (morning)

Inject Message #6:
Several phone calls to the Kettle Moraine
County 911 center are misdirected to
random phone numbers including 1-900
sex lines.
Cell sites throughout the mid-central
district become intermittently unstable
or unavailable.

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Day Four (mid-day)

Inject Message #7:
The Badger County emergency manager
asks the county EC to provide
communications between the sheriffs
office, 7 police stations and 5 fire
stations until further notice.

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Day Four (mid-day)

Inject Message #8:
The Kettle Moraine County emergency
manager asks if ARES/RACES can
continue providing backup
communications in the county and
provide communications to the
governors office until further notice.

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State of the World

The Brewers loose game 1 of the
World Series.
The governor declares a state of
emergency and activates the State
Emergency Operations Center.
Executives of Cisco, NCR, Semantic,
Microsoft, and other internet related
companies work frantically to
defeat unprecedented cyber
attacks.

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State of the World

The FBI raids multiple sites across the
country and arrest persons who have
allegedly hacked into key computer
networks.
Rampant Rangers claim they can not
be defeated despite arrests of
several of their key members.
Sales of Halloween costumes,
especially cartoon heroes,
described as unusually high.

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