The Community requesting the Strike Team will do so after their normal

mutual aid plan has been utilized, unless the incident type / size requires an immediate response of a Strike Team.

Primary Notification will be on the District Low Band – 33.62 to either Southbridge or Northbridge Control.

Secondary Notification will be on the telephone to either control point at the following phone numbers:

Southbridge Fire

Northbridge Fire

The community requesting the Strike team is responsible for designating the staging area and providing directions to the staging area or fire location. 

Whenever possible, the requesting community will have a fire department official waiting for the Strike Team to arrive on scene at the staging area to coordinate resources.  That fire department official will apprise the Strike Team Commander

of the incident scope and will transmit a message to the Incident Commander that the Strike Team Commander is on scene.

Designate:           Staging area

Designate:           Staging area manager

Directions

The responding communities are responsible for knowing what equipment or alternate equipment to send for each type of Strike Team. All available apparatus listed on the Strike Team Run Card shall be sent upon request, unless that unit is out of service at the time of the call.  In the event that apparatus is not available at the time of the call, the responding community shall, whenever possible, fill in with apparatus of the same type.  If alternate apparatus is not available, the community shall notify the District Control Point dispatcher (Southbridge or Northbridge), who will contact the communities on that particular Strike Team to see if they can fill in with the appropriate apparatus.  If those communities cannot fill in with the appropriate apparatus, the Control Point Dispatcher shall contact another community, not on the Strike Team, to see if they can fill in for the assigned apparatus.

Need further clarification on how and who to call for the fill in’s

Matrix needed?

Communications between the local department and the control point will remain on the District 7 Low Band 33.62.

Communications between the local department and responding strike teams will move over the District 7 – VHF ORANGE channel for response coordination.

The District 7 ORANGE channel will be for communications for the following areas.

Command staff    -                        strike teams

Command staff -                          staging area

Staging area-                               strike team commander

Strike team commander-           strike team apparatus

Responding Communications on District 7 ORANGE:

·                     Strike Team Commander will sign on the air with the District Control Point (Southbridge or Northbridge)

·                     Strike Team Apparatus will sign on the air with the respective Strike Team Commander when they are responding to the staging area

·                     Commander and Apparatus will remain on the ORANGE channel  until they arrive at staging or the incident

·                     The Strike Team Commander will communicate with the District Control Point when the strike team has arrived at the staging area.

·                     A Communications plan will be developed with command by the Incident Dispatch Team that respond with the Strike Team

·                     D7 RED and BLUE should be utilized to assist with communications and allow for UHF and Low band resources to be utilized at the incident scene.