Katrina Arrivals Sunday

[jimmnn]

Katrina Evacuees To Be Housed At Lowry Site
Planes Loaded With People To Arrive At Buckley As Soon As Sunday
UPDATED: 10:13 pm MDT September 3, 2005
DENVER -- With shelters in Louisiana and neighboring states overflowing with people fleeing flooding from Hurricane Katrina, Colorado officials on Saturday said up to 1,000 refugees will be housed at dorms at the former Lowry Air Force base.
Military and civilian planes were to begin arriving at Buckley Air Force Base with those displaced by the storm as soon as Sunday, Gov. Bill Owens said at a news conference. News of the arrival came on the same day as 700 Colorado National Guardsmen left to the Gulf Coast to aid in the search and rescue efforts.
Once here, refugees will be given credentials for access to Lowry, most of which is being converted into a residential development, given a health screening and bused to the emergency housing.
"Our focus for these people is the next 48 hours," said Gov. Bill Owens. "This (housing) could be weeks, even months for some of these people."


146.940 ARES CP

DTRS Mac 1,2,3 & 4 possible

Also three new DTRS id’s became active this evening 9492, 9494 & 9497 don’t know if related.

Itac channels for communications with conventional agencies.

Jim<

 

[jimmnn]

Correction on the ARES frequencies - 146.640, 145.940 Also 449.450 if necessary. We will be testing the system at 7am and I'll let you know if there are any changes.

Jim<

 

[jimmnn]

Evac U/D: AFD Batt 4 at Buckley, Batt 1 & Med-2 at Lowry using Aur-800. ARES using 449.450 & 146.940 mainly from all sites and State EOC. Also patching Mac-2 into Itac 2. (001)

Katrina Evac U/D: First flight will arrive at 10am at Buckley with 130 POB, 2nd flight 1300hrs and will continue 24/7 for about 2 days. www.live365.com/stations/jimmnn4 will be a dedicated feed. (001)

Also 867.0125 (Itac 2) is active with Buckley security issues.

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[jimmnn]

Katrina Evac U/D: Refugee Flights will arrive at Buckley AFB until 2100hrs and then overnight operations will move to landing at DIA. (001)

 

[jimmnn]

Katrina Evac U/D: Frontier Flight 9432 just landed at Buckley, /088/ O/F Aircraft (001)

OK enrough updates for a while but Buckley is operating on 121.000, 121.600, 251.075, 275.800, 289.600, 291.600

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[jimmnn]

Monday Update

Frequencies remain pretty much the same:

Mac 1, 2 & 3 on DTRS

AFD Tac 3 and 4

DG Event 1 & 2.
Dedicated feed on www.live365com/stations/jimmnn

DG EMS physician advisor on scene today at EMS staging, triage near the Lowry gym.

ARES using 449.450
Dedicated feed on www.live365com/stations/jimmnn4

Jeffco IMT has set up a dedicated repeater at Lowry to improve communications there but no one seems to know when or if the first flight will arrive today.

Communications from state EOC (South Metro FD Headquarters in Centennial) also seem to be clearer today.

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[eyes00only]

Noon Monday / just changed to 146.805 / tone 186.200.

 

[jimmnn]

Noon Monday / just changed to 146.805 / tone 186.200.

Believe that's just the internal Lowry operations, because they were chatting too much. The entire ARES operation across multiple sites remains on the 449 machine.

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[jimmnn]

Just announced no flights will be arriving today and all operations at Buckley are standing down.

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[eyes00only]

Believe that's just the internal Lowry operations, because they were chatting too much. The entire ARES operation across multiple sites remains on the 449 machine.

Jim<

Correct / salvation army / housing / buses / 900's / incident command / reception mgmt. / volunteer coordination / credential 1 & 2 checks.