# Presentation: 689984

## National Communications System (NCS)“ESF-2 Training”

**Mike Tuominen**
**Incident Communications Operations**
**USFS/NIFC/NIICD**
**mtuominen@fs.fed.us **
**208-387-5947**** **

## NATIONAL INTERAGENCY INCIDENT COMMUNICATIONS DIVISION

**INCIDENT SUPPORT**
**NATIONAL INCIDENT RADIO SUPPORT CACHE (NIRSC)**
**REWORK & SUPPLY**
**MAINTENANCE**
**AVIONICS**
**INFRARED**
**COMMUNICATIONS OPERATIONS**
**ENGINEERING / DEVELOPMENT**
**TECHNICAL TRAINING**

## INCIDENT SUPPORT

**WILDLAND FIRE**
**200-300 fires per year**
**120-150 Starter Systems per year**
**Strength-of-Force, April 1 – November 30**

## INCIDENT SUPPORT

**SPECIAL OPERATIONS**
**Military Exercises**
**Law Enforcement**
**Drug Interdiction**

## INCIDENT SUPPORT

**HURRICANES**
**Radio Support**
**Frequency Support**
**Every major hurricane since Hugo**

## INCIDENT SUPPORT

**OTHER DISASTERS**
**Oil spills**
**9/11 NYC and DC**
**Shuttle Columbia Recovery**
**Floods**
**Earthquakes (USAR)**

## INCIDENT SUPPORT

**SPECIAL EVENTS**
**Olympics**
**Wright Brothers Centennial**
**Political Conventions**
**4****th**** of July Celebrations**

## INCIDENT SUPPORT

**INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE**
**Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA)**
**Disaster Assistance Response Teams (DART)**
**US Forest Service – International Programs**
**Disaster Assistance Support Program (DASP)**
**DOI/BLM – International Programs**

## NIRSC EQUIPMENT

**HANDHELD FM RADIOS**
**8000 Radios**
**Analog & Digital  (P25)**
**BK, Datron, EF Johnson, Motorola, Racal**
**Cloning Cable with P25 Radios**

## NIRSC EQUIPMENT

**REPEATERS**
**250 Repeaters**
**All Daniels Equipment**
**Analog & Digital (P25)**

## NIRSC EQUIPMENT

**Aviation**
**Technisonic TFM 138B and TDFM 136**
**ICOM Handhelds**
**Ground Aircraft Base Kit**
**Air Attack Kits**
**MAFFS Base Stations**

## NIRSC EQUIPMENT

**UHF LINKS**
**All Daniels Equipment**
**GROUND AIRCRAFT LINK KITS **
**All Daniels Equipment**

## NIRSC EQUIPMENMT

**100% VHF FM WIDEBAND/NARROWBAND CAPABLE**
**ANALOG/DIGITAL/MULTI-MODE (P-25) CAPABILITY**

## COMMUNICATION DUTY OFFICER (CDO)

**Maintains the capability to respond with frequencies, equipment, and personnel to any type of natural or human caused disaster, as well as law enforcement and special events**
**Available 24/7**
**208-387-5644 (CDO), e-mail nifccdo@fs.fed.us**
**208-387-5400 National Interagency Coordination Center (NICC)**

## COMMUNICATION DUTY OFFICER (CDO)

**2005 REVIEW**
**407 INCIDENTS**
**159 STARTER SYSTEMS**
**534 TEMPORARY FREQUENCIES (FM/AM)**
**55 SPECIAL REPEATERS (VHF/UHF)**
**7 CDO ASSIGNMENTS**
**21 COMC ASSIGNMENTS**
**4 COMC TRAINEE ASSIGNMENTS**

## REWORK & SUPPLY

**Issue, track and refurbish all NIRSC equipment, accessories and kits**
**Maintain parts and supplies for all NIRSC equipment**

## MAINTENANCE

**Will at all times maintain enough radio communications equipment to support requests for deployment to the field**
**Maintain all NIRSC equipment to NIRSC specifications**
**Thoroughly test and voice test all equipment after each issue**

## AVIONICS

**Maintains aviation communications for interagency partners**
**Creates national standards for avionics**
**Inspects aircraft for safety and contract conformity**

## National Infrared Operations

**Provide accurate high-quality infrared imagery to an incident in a timely manner**
**Two aircraft: Citation Bravo and Super King Air B200**
**Availability to downlink from aircraft to incident**
**Downlink kits may be used by IRIN as GIS work station**

## COMMUNINCATIONS OPERATIONS

**Maintain the capability to respond with qualified personnel to any type of incident regardless of the agency involved**
**Coordinate and remain active with other response agencies such as Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), United States Coast Guard (USCG), Urban Search and Rescue (USAR), etc.**

## ENGINEERING/DEVELOPMENT

**Provide the best possible communications systems and remote sensing design and equipment available for support of interagency incident communications**

## TECHNICAL TRAINING

**INCIDENT COMMUNICATION SUPPORT TRAINING**
**Communication Equipment Procedures (COMT)**
**Communication Unit Leader (COML)**
**Communications Coordinator (COMC)**
**JOURNEYMAN TECHNICAL TRAINING COURSES**

## QUESTIONS ?

**HOTSHEET:  **
**www.fs.fed.us/fire/niicd/Hotsheet/Hotsheet**

**NIICD**
**www.fs.fed.us/fire/niicd**