A Basic guide to disaster communications.

Why plan? -- Contents of the plan -- Keeping track of the plan -- Testing the plan -- Amateur radio -- Base stations (alternative) -- Base stations (backup) -- Chemical spills -- Communications vans -- Connecting peripheral agencies -- Damage assessment -- Data systems (internal) -- Data systems (external) -- Equipment hazards -- Evacuation (comm center & EOC) -- Facsimile -- Floods and water damage -- Hardware failures -- Helicopters -- Logging -- The message center -- Mobiles -- Philosophies -- Power (communications center) -- Power (EOC) -- Power (remote radio vault) -- Public access -- Radio needs -- Satellites -- Scanners -- Synthesized radios -- Telephones -- Telephones (cellular) -- Telephones (emergency service) -- Telephone problems -- Terminology -- TV (closed circuit) -- TV (public) -- Warning systems and evacuations -- Warning systems (attack) -- The last word