Region V: Dallas, Texas

Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas

The CCC experts in Dallas, Texas, is our Region V (Five); it is responsible to address and develop a National Response Preparation Plan for Hurricanes and other disasters and train the personnel in how to deal with hurricanes prior to, during, and the aftermath of such disaster. They will also develop programs dealing with Natural or Terrorism Disasters. In the overall scope of this type of research is where our College of Field Command and Operations will come into play. We will train the leaders of the country.

We will also train local, state, and Federal EOCs employees and their leaders. What our research is telling us is that when a new local and state administration is sworn into office, a political nightmare occurs. Leaders choose their friends, place them into a department chair position, and expect them to know their role. What our findings revealed is that the good old boy system is well defined in positions of authority.

The EOCs across America and its leaders on an average change every two to four years. This was startling statistics, why I question. Our research reveals the initial money allocated for an EOC in that city or county has created two separate budgets - - a 22 percent cut or even more across the board if they join together. Where does this leave us? Earlier in this summary, we spoke about combining EOCs in a community. We looked at 3,077 counties and over 96,000 cities throughout the United States. Each Fire/Police and other command vehicles work independently. However, even today these agencies cannot communicate during normal operation, so now can they talk to one another on a fire/police communication network.

This CCC is going to work closely will the Gulf Coast Region to determine cause and reaction. Our 38 Communication Units respond to ground zero and establishes forward command. Our team of experts will work closely with Texas, Gulf Coast Region states, and the government Emergency Management locations. We need to develop a national EOC emergency response leadership task force. After careful review of the city and county EOC efforts, it might be an adventure to combine efforts and reduce the individual emergency communication network. We will do the research and only make recommendation; it will be totally up to the local authorities.

According to The United States Fire Administration statistic and research department, in 2004 through 2006, there were 53,200 fire departments; in 2006, the number dropped significantly to 30,635 fire departments.

The information we are looking for was hard to determine. According to statistics, there are many private EMS divisions popping up throughout the Country. The EMS private providers are taking the lead role; however, the EMS providers are taking the back seat to the Fire Departments dealing with training. Last year alone private EMS providers were trying to pass a bill to be reimbursed under the Emergency Action Plan during a disaster.

Let us explore the gross amount of non-communication network systems that need to be addressed, and they are very far apart. It is this reason and this finding alone why our C-2 communication network has the ability to cross-communicate with any responding frequency. Even though we have the capabilities for regional and national cross band to communicate, it is still very hard, especially when there is a disaster and the communication towers are out of service. This was another reason we elected to write the C-2 Satellite Communication Command Network.

Earlier last year, the state of Texas requested an Ambulance Task Force of 60 ambulances to respond to Texas. The information was weak at hand, and there was some confusion; however, the job was done. Our Telecommunication crosses jurisdictional boundaries. Governor Mobile Tactical Command, Incorporated, could have been established at ground zero and monitor the movement of these ambulances inside the disaster area and receive real time data back from the vehicles inside ground zero.

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