Lessons Learned Study: The Response To the 2011 Joplin, Missouri, Tornado

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Submitted by evought on Tue, 07/17/2012 - 19:28

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I have just received a PDF from the Homeland Security Digital Library, entitled "The Response To the 2011 Joplin, Missouri, Tornado; Lessons Learned Study". This is a evaluation of the local, regional, state, and federal response to the EF-5 tornado and its aftermath. The document is unclassified and is redistributable.

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SEMA Disaster Map Books, US National Grid, Free/Open Map Resources

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Submitted by evought on Tue, 07/17/2012 - 17:07
A Lawrence County map page viewed in Acrobat Reader on Linux

Last night at the Barry/Lawrence ARES meeting in Monett, I told people about the SEMA Disaster Support Mapbooks, a set of 1:25000 Missouri atlases, one atlas per county, using the US National Grid (USNG) Coordinate Reference System (CRS), in a Geospatial PDF format (readable by most PDF viewers with some applications providing more features than others).

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After-Exercise Process --- Business Meeting Agenda

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Submitted by evought on Mon, 07/02/2012 - 16:11

Now that the deployment drill has been completed, it is time to go through the after-exercise process. Since this is the first time our organization is going through this, we will be setting up templates and checklists to make the next process easier. We are following the Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation Process (HSEEP) which is based to a large degree on the DoD process which has been in use for a long time.

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Operation Earwax: LCSA Deployment Exercise 23-24 June

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Submitted by evought on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 12:56

This month, the Lawrence County Sheriff's Auxiliary will have its first field deployment exercise, Operation Earwax, timed to coincide with the National Amateur Radio (Ham) Field Day. The purpose of the exercise will be group training and operational test of field equipment (communications, power, etc).

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CERT Course 8-9 June, Please Sign Up!

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Submitted by evought on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 12:19

We have scheduled the CERT Introductory course for 8 and 9 June (Friday evening and Saturday) in the Lawrence County Emergency Operations Center. This is a free training required for all LCSA volunteers. Several of us have also decided to have their older children or family members go through the training. We need at least 15 people signed up to run the course, so please RSVP.

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Thank You, Logan Electronics

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Submitted by evought on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 07:57

We would like to thank Logan Electronics of Mount Vernon for the donation of a Linksys WRT54G 802.11g router with high-gain antennae for use in our LifeNet emergency communications testing.

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Class: Constitution, Law, and the Auxiliary I, 22 May Mount Vernon

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Submitted by evought on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 16:26

We will be teaching the Constitution, Law, and the Auxiliary (CLA-I) course on the evening of 22 May at the Mount Vernon Library, starting at 18:00 (6pm). It is a 3-hour course which shall meet the requirements of NCOs in the Auxiliary. Officers are also required to take the Constituion, Law, and the Auxiliary II course.

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LCSA Meeting 8 May 2012 - Mount Vernon

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Submitted by evought on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 16:01

Our next meeting will be Tuesday 8 May at the Mount Vernon Library, from 18:30 (6:30pm) to 20:30 (8:30pm). The meeting is a business meeting for volunteers but is open to the public, especially prospective volunteers.

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LifeNet Emergency Communications Network - Voice over ad hoc Wi-Fi

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Submitted by evought on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 00:36

The LCSA is exploring local deployment of the prototype LifeNet software stack as "a WiFi-based data communication solution designed for post-disaster scenarios". LifeNet is a fault-tolerant multipath routing framework which uses COTS (Commodity Off-The-Shelf) 802.11.x WiFi equipment to route emergency traffic from device to device until it can reach functioning infrastructure.

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Aurora Hamfest 2012

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Submitted by evought on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 14:50

This is an annual amateur radio gathering in Aurora, Missouri which falls on Saturday 14 April. As discussed at our business meeting of 12 April, they will be conducting licensing tests at 10 am and this is a good opportunity to get your HAM Novice license as well as to meet local ARES volunteers and potentially, perform outreach for the Auxiliary. ARES, the Amateur Radio Emergency Service, is the backbone for emergency communications in Missouri; working with amateur operators is critical to our mission.

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