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LDS
conducts
emergency
communciations
test
On
Saturday,
March
18
the
Quartzsite
Branch
of
The
Church
of
Jesus
Christ
of
Latter
Day
Saints
(LDS)
conducted
an
emer-
gency
communications
test.
The
local
unit,
called
a
Branch,
is
divided
into
about
20
blocks
in
order
to
account
for
some
265
members
of
record.
Volunteer
Block
Leaders,
both
LDS
and
non-LDS,
have
several
families
to
check
on
in
an
emergency.
Block
members
are
to
report
to
block
leaders
rather
than
wait-
ing
for
block
leaders
to
contact
them.
Doing
so
speeds
up
re-
sponse
time
and
greatly
reduces
the
workload
on
block
leaders.
If group
texting
is
used,
it
be-
comes
a
"Party
Line"
and
all
Block
members
know
the
status
and
needs
of
each
Block
member.
Texting
also
reduces
the
overload
on
the
phone
system
and
provides
a
written
record
in
case
the
Block
leader
is busy.
Text
messages
are
temporarily
stored
if
the
phone
system
is
busy
and
then
trans-
mitted
when
the
system
comes
back
up.
For
the
fi
rst
part
of
this
test,
it
was
assumed
that
phones
were
work-
ing
and
members
were
to
report
to
their
block
leaders
and
indicate
the
number
of
gallons
of
drinking
water
on
hand.
Once
Block
Leaders
received
re-
ports
from
Block
members,
the
second
part
of
the
test,
which
assumed
that
phones
were
not
working,
was
put
into
action.
Ra-
dio
operators
from
the
Emergency
Response
Communications
team,
assigned
to
each
Block
leader,
then
reported
by
radio
to
the
LDS
Emergency
Operations
Center
(EOC),
located
in
the
church
at
455
South
Riggles
Avenue.
Ama-
teur
(ham)
radio
was
utilized
to
make
this
initial
report.
Members
of Emergency
Response
Communications
(ERC)
team
PHOTO
|
Courtesy
LDS
