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Wade: Welcome everyone to the inaugural, the premiere, the first ever episode of the
Be Ready Utah PrepCast I'm Wade Mathews, your host, and I'm also the manager of
Be Ready Utah here at the Division of Emergency Management. Joining me today is
Bryan Stinson, also an outreach specialist from emergency management. Bryan: Yep,
I just love to teach people about emergency preparedness. That's what I do.
Wade: Great. Thank you. Also on my left here is Ken Kraudy, an outreach specialist and...
Ken: Yes, I'm also the state Citizen Corps coordinator. Wade: Well thank you for joining
us today. Let me begin by telling you just a little bit about Be Ready Utah.
It is the outreach campaign for the Division of Emergency Management and
which is a part of the Department of Public Safety. Our mission here is to
help people take action towards preparedness to work towards having a
plan and getting prepared for those emergencies and disasters that could
occur here in Utah. And we have a mantra called "Make it plan, get a kit,
be informed and get involved." So we're gonna talk about areas those four areas in
these PrepCasts and including the 12 areas of preparedness that fall under
that "make a plan," that mantra, and today our first area we're going to going to
talk about is communications. It's important to have a plan for
communications, right, Ken? Ken: It is. Communications is a major major factor
and one of the biggest problems at any disaster. Wade: Why is it a problem in a
disaster? Bryan: that's usually one of the first things that collapses in an emergency.
I mean, you know, cell phones get overwhelmed or knocked over so you know your your
communications, being able to contact your loved ones, your friends, your
neighbors, whoever needs help or you know, emergency services, that's usually one of
the first things that gets lost, Wade: Yeah, power outages can affect communications
as well and that's one of the first things that could happen in any
emergency or disaster so we we are going to begin by talking a little bit about
creating your own communications element in your family disaster plan and for
your family communications element we talked about having an out-of-state
telephone contact, somebody important in your family that everybody knows how to
contact a relative or friend that's long distance or out of state so that they're
not affected by the emergency or disaster.
Everybody should have that person's contact information: their cell phone
number, email address, home phone, all that information and then what do we do with
that information in an emergency? How do we use that out-of-state contact?
Bryan: Well, we want we want to call that to come to have everybody in the family or
in your household call that person because you may not be able to call
anybody else. Everybody checks in with that person then the designated person
mom or dad then calls and says, hey I need to know how you know "how is Bobby
doing how's Betty doing" and then that person says well they called in and said
that they're okay this is where they are I haven't heard yet from Bobby, I'll call
you back or send you a text. Actually, sometimes texting is better than even
calling so you get that contact you're able to get that information that you
need to find out how your family's doing. Wade: right so basically everyone reports in
to your out-of-state telephone contact and that person relays information back
to everyone in the family and that provides that communication link. We are
able to communicate with one another in an emergency or disaster and it gives us
peace of mind knowing that we can be reunited with our loved ones again in an
emergency or disaster through having that communication. The next part of our
family communication plan is meeting places. We should have a meeting place
outside of our home for that immediate emergency, the home fire, the
earthquake or whatnot and a meeting place outside of our
neighborhood if we can't get back home if the roads are damaged, if there's a
road block, something like that the neighborhood is evacuated we have
another place that we can meet and it's important that everybody in the family
knows where those meeting places are outside your home it doesn't matter if
it's the the front of the tree in the front yard, the neighbor's porch, the
streetlight out on the corner. Whatever it is, just everybody in the
family needs to know where that is and then practice going to that meeting
place outside of your house. Your meeting place outside of your neighborhood again
is just a place that your family is familiar with. It could be your favorite
store, the church, the school, grandma's house across town doesn't matter where
it is as long as everybody knows and then you
practice getting there in an emergency or disaster. And again, this provides
peace of mind knowing that we can be reunited with our loved ones again.
Bryan: One thing I will say about that is you want to make sure that it's a specific
location not the park across the street, but maybe the park this specific
park bench in the park across the street Ken: Good point. Bryan: Because in the chaos of you
know house fire something you've got to all the neighbors coming out to watch
you've got the rescue vehicles and everything. People are going to get lost
in that make sure there's a specific place in the area that you're going to
be meeting. Wade: Exactly now if you go to our our website, BeReadyUtah.gov, you can
find a brochure that we've created there for your use you can print this off and
then fill in the little cards with the information that we've been talking
about. There's a place for emergency contact, your out-of-state contact, your
outside home meeting place and you're outside neighborhood meeting place. You
fill this in with all that specific information on each of the cards and
then you can cut it out and put it in give one of these to everybody in the
family. All the family members can have that information with them in their
wallet, their backpack, their glove box. Again, like you said you can plug this
information into your cell phone but there's no guarantees that the cell
phones will work. Texting is the most reliable method of communicating in a
disaster. And we want to stay, by the way, we want to stay off of the phone in
emergency especially in a local circuit and keep the phones open for emergency
response. right Wade: Okay anything else you want to add about that that family
communications plan? Bryan: I think you know anytime that you are going to be want
one thing about its PREparedness. This has to be done before the emergency.
Wade: absolutely yes Bryan: you have to make sure that this is done I mean this is an easy
thing like this card that Wade was talking about, there's five of them on
there that's something that take you five minutes to do it can literally save
your life and it needs to be done beforehand, teach your kids how to use it,
teach your kids how to safely use a phone whether it's you know 911... when do they use it?
When when is it appropriate to use it? Everybody needs to know how to do this
and practice your emergency contact Ken: And that's the thing I was going to
mention to practice is really important I think. It's one thing to have a written
plan and have it written down, but practice it periodically so that you're
used to it so that everybody in the family is aware and keep it in mind
Wade: Yeah and they're familiar. Okay excellent. thank you let's go next into some of our
emergency communication methods if the phone isn't working and maybe we're lost
or something like that so Bryan, you're going to talk to us a little bit about
emergency communications. Bryan: Yeah a lot of times for an emergency... Say so you're
lost in the wilderness, your building collapses, something like that, how are we
able to communicate? You know, phone is not an option
yelling is not always a very good option either "Owie, owie! I'm hurt I need help..."
your voice doesn't last that long and what if you're out in the wilderness? You
know? People won't be able to hear you so one thing you
always want to carry with you something so simple is just a little whistle.
I carry one of these in my pocket every day and three blasts on a whistle [three whistle sounds]
Remember that. Three. Three is the international sign of distress every
time that you hear something in threes you know, SOS, it's not "save our ship" it's
that "deet deet deet - dot dot dot - deet deet deet." It's threes. That's the important thing to remember
with any kind of signal you know you're out in the wilderness or something flash
your flashlight three times, gunshot three times, bang bang bang, another great
thing to have when you're going out and have in your car or in your backpack
something so simple is just a mirror you can flash three times, flash flash flash,
at a passing airplane. This can be seen for miles. It can be seeing much further
than even just a little whistle and flash from just something reflective. And
again, remember three. You want to make sure that you're doing threes because
that means I'm in distress. Going along with that, say somebody's flying overhead
you built yourself a really nice signal fire "help, I need help"
somebody flying overhead they're gonna see that they're gonna go
"I wonder if they're doing s'mores down there" but if you put three campfire or three
signal fires in a triangle somebody flying overhead they're not gonna think
"mmm s'mores" they're gonna think, oh somebody down there needs help.
Remember, always remember, three is the International sign of distress whether it's
banging on the wall, banging on a pipe, blowing whistle, flashing with you your
your mirror, with your flashlight, with whatever, remember three. Wade: yeah in a future
PrepCast, I'm sure we'll be talking more about earthquake preparedness. We've got
ShakeOut coming up in April and and what do you do if you drop, cover and hold on
and you get stuck under that desk or that table or the chair where you were
getting cover from from an earthquake, you do tap, you find out some
debris and you just start tapping and the rescuers will listen, listen for
those noises and be able to locate people in that way. So signaling this is
great for backpacking, for camping, for hunting any time in the outdoors or in
that disaster situation when you're separated from loved ones, exactly.
All right, thank you Bryan great. Ken, we're gonna our last topic today on under
communicati ons, we're going to talk a little bit about a very reliable
communications method in emergencies and disasters right? Ken: Ham radio. Wade: yes that's
amateur radio ham radio. Ken: that's right you know one thing about ham radio is that
whatever everything else goes down: cell towers, microwave signals, telephone lines
and cables, ham radio still works and so we're finding that ham radio is being
used more and more in the disaster community, in the disaster response
community. Now a ham radio works because there is no other infrastructure
besides your radio and then the bands that you're working with and then the
radio on the other end that you're talking to. And so you can throw an
antenna over a tree or a fence and if you got a battery and a and a radio
you're able to communicate. So ham radio is excellent. Now ham radio does require
a license and there are three levels of licensures you
can get. The first level is technician and you simply take a test of about 35
questions. And if you answer 26 of those correctly you get your license. Wade: excellent!
good odds there. Ken: But ham radio does have some limitations in terms of how many
bands and so forth they can use depending upon the license that you have.
The general license is the next step up and you're able to also use more bands
than that the FCC requires. Wade: So if you get your technician license you'll learn all
about information in the classes you can go to a local amateur radio club. They
will teach these classes. You can go on a website and and learn about the
amateur radio use there as well. Ken: if you just google ham radio or amateur radio
you'll find all kinds of resources about how to buy radios, where to buy them,
where to go for the licenses and so forth and all that information is
available. Wade: And what makes amateur radio work so well in emergencies and
disasters, is it's part of the principle of preparedness in general, is being
self-sufficient, being able to take care of yourself and providing those things
that you need yourself in an emergency or disaster
so amateur radio they've got their power supplies and their antennas and their
radios: Self-sufficient, right? that's what makes it work in emergencies that's
right disasters and portable yeah exactly
Bryan: all right you say how does this compare to like your your family FRS
walkie-talkies and all that what's what's the difference? Ken: the difference is
the number of bands you're able to communicate with the FRS the Family
Radio Service and and the general mobile radio service, GMRS,
are limited in terms of the number of bands you can use and it's mostly
line-of-sight with a ham radio license so you're able to talk across the state,
across the country, you can even talk to the space station.
Bryan: Do we need licenses for those other kinds of radios? Ken: no. Bryan: okay so the FRS,
think the GMRS... Ken: the GMRS you pay for the license I think but I don't
think there's a there's no test Wade: just register yourself those are great
tools to have it for a family in emergencies and disasters as well having
those little family radios in your disaster supply kit like you would with
having a signal signal mirror or a regular flashlight in your disaster supply kits
as well having those radios there. We encourage everyone look further into
amateur radio see if that's something that you are interested in doing and and
get your license and learn more about it about that and be a
resource in emergencies and disasters with your amateur radio. Ken: yes. Wade: all right
well I think we're about out of time here for our first ever Be Ready Utah
PrepCast. Hopefully you've found some of this information informative and helpful
to you in your planning for emergency preparedness, your family disaster plans.
We are going to be doing this on a regular basis you can look for us on our
our YouTube channel, on our Facebook page. We'll be posting information about these
PrepCasts on our social media to Twitter and Facebook right and on our
website, BeReadyUtah.gov. Again that's where you can go out and find all kinds
of information on BeReadyUtah.gov. We'll have information on these PrepCasts
there as well. So next month what are we going to be talking about Bryan? Bryan: next
month, we're talking about water storage and treatment, you know, what, how much
water do we need to have, how can we store it, how can we treat it if we've
used up all our stored water. Wade: okay great that sounds like a fun topic.
I'm thirsty right now so we're looking forward to some water storage for our
next topic. Thank you for watching us. Please comment, let us know how we did
and if you've got any suggestions for future topics or if you have any
questions we can answer for you please let us know. thank you for watching us
thank you for joining us today. Bryan: we're hashtag #BRUPrepCast. Wade: all right
hashtag #BRUPrepCast Again thank you for watching us here on the
Be Ready Utah PrepCast.
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