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- Subject : RB.299 Strike Teams 1/2
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- RACESBUL.299 DATE: Nov 8, l993
- SUBJECT: OPS - STRIKE TEAMS - Part 1/2
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- Adapted from an article by Ted Benson, WA6BEJ, Deputy RACES Radio
- Officer/Mobile Operations, San Diego County RACES as published in
- TAC ONE, vol. 1, issue 2.
-
- The Strike Team, What it is, and what it isn't.
- In its simplest form, the Strike Team is a group of
- specialists, ready to go anywhere on short notice, and able to
- bring everything they need along with them. It is to provide
- short-term support until a given situation can be evaluated, and
- further resources called in. Our Strike Team is designed to
- operate for 72 hours without outside support. By the end of that
- time, the incident will either be resolved (the record is
- currently one hour), or further support will have been brought
- in. This is an important part of the Strike Team concept, and the
- most often misunderstood.
- The resources of a Strike Team could easily be exhausted if
- it was called in to every incident and expected to remain until
- the entire incident was over. Instead, its function is to provide
- a bridge between the initial incident and the arrival of the
- larger, but slower to mobilize resources. Once further resources
- have arrived, the Strike Team transitions itself out of the
- picture - ready to respond to another call. This technique has
- been developed to a science by the California Department of
- Forestry (CDF) which fields Strike Teams all over the state. It
- was their example, in part, that was used to develop our Strike
- Team.
- (Concluded in part 2)
- EOF
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