There is no substitute for a focused, highly motivated management team when it comes to real-time problem solving. Communicate the Plan Make sure the whole team is running the same play from the same playbook, as they say in football. Radios Our VHF radios are our primary communications link for operations. Make sure repeaters are on emergency power along with chargers for batteries. Have lots of spare batteries.
Phones Keep the phone system up.
While it's not as important to facilities, it is for almost everyone else. Cell Phones Cell phones were the secondary source of internal facilities communications, but a primary source of external facilities communications. Use as many normal, pre-established systems as possible. We use our normal protocol unless we lose our repeater, then we have a pre-established plan to go to a simplex approach. We continue to operate our Facilities Service Center and answer our phones.