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• Arlington County ACS & RACES Manual

The Arlington County Auxiliary Communications Service (ACS) is the designated communications reserve of the Arlington County Office of Emergency Management under Emergency Support Function (ESF) 2 - Communications. Its mission is to provide a variety of professional unpaid volunteer skills, including administrative, technical and operational, for emergency tactical, administrative and logistical communications; with served agencies, and participating jurisdictions of the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, §44-146.28:1 of the Code of Virginia, within the National Capitol Region, and the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Arlington County ACS & RACES Manual --
MS Word (843K)

• Appendix 1 --- Vehicle Checklist for Local Deployment (MS Word 44K)

• Appendix 2 --- Vehicle Checklist for Mutual Aid Deployment (MS Word 46K)

• Appendix 3 --- Personal Equipment Checklist for a 12-hour Operational Period (MS Word 45K)

• Appendix 4 --- 24-Hour Pack Checklist for Mutual Aid Deployments (PDF 199K)

• Appendix 5 --- Your 24-hour Pack, Virginia RACES, includes a discussion of 72-hour annex (PDF 1,233K)

• Appendix 6 --- Pre-Deployment Checklist (for Mutual Aid, beyond National Capitol Region) (MS Word 55K)

• Appendix 7 --- Script for Weekly ACS-RACES Net (Repeater) (MS Word 35K)

• Appendix 8 --- Script for Monthly Simplex Communications Test (MS Word 45K)

• Appendix 9 --- Simplex Frequency and Repeater Use Scripts, use during an activation (MS Word 33K)

• Appendix 10 --- Procedural Words and Phases (MS Word 47K)

• Appendix 11 --- VHF/UHF Northern Virginia Amateur Frequency List (Excel 30K)

• Appendix 12 --- HF Radio Frequency List (Excel 25K)

• Appendix 13 --- EOC Message Flow (MS Word 36K)

• Appendix 14 --- FEMA EMI Course List (MS Word 48K)

• Appendix 15 --- Annual Performance Rating (MS Word 60K)

• Appendix 16 --- ACS-RACES Resource Type Classification Table (NIMS) (MS Word 47K)

• Appendix 17 --- ICS Forms Pack Cover Sheet (MS Word 39K)

• 17(a) ICS Form 213 --- ICS 213 General Message Form (PDF 35K)

• 17(b) ICS Form 213V --- Two ICS 213 General Message Forms (original and reply) (RTF 985K)

• 17(c) ICS Form 309 --- Communications Log (MS Word 55K)

• 17(d) ICS Form 205 --- ACS-RACES Communication Plan (MS Word 753K)

• Appendix 18 --- OPBRIEF Virginia RACES Job Aid (may be used in place of ICS201 (MS Word 35K)

• Appendix 19 --- ACS-RACES Quick Reference Job Aid (MS Word 60K)

• Appendix 20 --- Appendix D OSHA Reg. 29 CFR 1910.134 (Mandatory Info for Respirator Use) (MS Word 48K)

• Appendix 21 --- Glossary of Emergency Management Terms (MS Word 111K)

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