CEDAP III questions

[FF0525]

16. Amount of funding or value of equipment, in dollars, received by your agency or department from State and/or Federal sources to purchase counter-terrorism equipment within the past 12 months


Do awards from CEDAP I & II count as "counter-terrorism equip"?

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19. Does your jurisdiction include any of the following types of critical infrastructure/key assets (check as many as apply)?
communications facilities

Would 911 PSAP's count as comm. facilities?

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21a structured risk assesment-name of conducting agency.

Can we just put our own dept, or does this officially need to be done by some outside agency?

[fire41108]

Thermal imaging

Has any fire Dept every written and got a Thermal imager? If so I need help with the questions and I am looking for a sample narritave to look at so I can understand and/or see how to write it for my Dept.


Kevin

[BC79er_OLDDELETE]

FF0525 -

16 - Yes since CEDAP's primary purpose is meant for Homeland Security issues, not daily firefighting. Even though it can be used for both. AFG is not counted unless your specific project was meant for counter-terrorism preparedness as the primary reason. Most projects are not, after AFG's main purpose is basic firefighting. No one eligible for CEDAP is eligible for the State HSGP funds, so other CEDAP awards are about it.

19 - PSAP? Too many acronyms, so little time. Dispatch centers, telephone central offices (where the phone wires all are), microwave communications towers, financial centers, etc, etc. There is a definition of critical infrastructure in the AFG PG document, everything there applies here.

21 - You don't need to use an outside agency to perform the audit, but if you did it then you need to identify who designed the metrics for the assessment and how was it compliant with the State's methods of assessing risk.

fire41108 - TICs are TICs, and TIC narratives are TIC narratives. What you can do is take an AFG TIC narrative and the firefighting benefits and make them secondary. The primary purpose if CEDAP is terrorism response & preparedness, so the primary benefits need to be related to that. So searching building collapses, hazmats, large area victim searches, etc, etc. I have a couple narratives involving TICs people sent me to share for them on my web site.

- Brian

[ktb9780]

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19 - PSAP? Too many acronyms, so little time.
- Brian

PSAP= Primary/Secondary Answering Point ( a 911 call answering and dispatching center)

[k3twpfire]

PSAP= Primary/Secondary Answering Point ( a 911 call answering and dispatching center)

Not to split hairs

Isn't it Public Safety Answering Point ?

[ktb9780]

Not to split hairs

Isn't it Public Safety Answering Point ?

I stand corrected k3! Good catch!

[AFD2181]

gotta love acronyms

Yes...PSAP is in fact Public Safety Answering Point..

Along those lines if your local dispatch center serves as an overflow point and/or back up for larger PSAP you are protecting a PSAP.

Or is PSAP= pretty standard application page
PSAP= Put SH_t away PLEASE?

[imafireman]

Should we include schools as part of the critical infrastructure or key asset points?

[BC79er_OLDDELETE]

Per the last definition I read, schools didn't quite fit in. But I'd put them in anyway, if terrorists want to get our attention and make a point I'm sure they wouldn't think twice about going after them.

[pps931]

Infrastructure

How do you actually list those critical infrastructure sites and locations?

Thanks

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[BC79er_OLDDELETE]

Either with a list or in sentence structure. It depends on how many you have. The shorter the list, the more likely I'd be to use sentences to make it look like more. Long list of places, I'd use a real list. It won't take a table since it's a text entry box, so using a - in place of bullet points is the usual MO.

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#16

This has been added to question #16

(not including CEDAP awards):

[onebugle]

Just another example how the forums help with making positve changes to programs. It also shows the positive commitment that RKB is making to provide an application process that is easy and straight forward to complete.