ERT General Introduction Course - Room 101

This class will take place during working hours on Friday April 15, Sunday April 17 and Tuesday April 19. All personnel must attend all classes, and will be ineligible for call response during this time. Uniform is station wear for fire personnel, and police personnel are to wear standard patrol uniforms to academy. When checking in you'll be given your blue shoulder bars to put on over the shoulder straps on your uniform shirts, indicating you are a cadet student here. Once you're in the academy and this class room, I ask you post your attendance in BOLD text, simply stating, BURKE HERE, but replace my name with yours. If you miss this class, you will not be considered in any others.

This class will cover the three basics of the ERT. Who we are, and what we do. How we do what we do. Chain of command and operations.

This class will cover Who we are, and what we do, so the history aspect of the ERT.

The ERT is a Federal Emergency Response department, composed of 7 divisions, 4 emergency, 2 administration and 1 training. Those are respectively, EMS, TEC, Police, Fire, COPA, General Staff, and Training Academy Staff. To see full history, see the information on www.ERTRPG.tk

We respond in many different ways. Initially, the ERT responds as a secondary response division, meaning we are called upon as backup usually. We house a third in line 911 call centre, so if you dial 911, and the operators at the Phoxlind Dispatch centre are busy, as well as either the TSD or PFD 911 centres, then someone in the ERT will take it, either through our 911 centre in COPA or it will get directed to an on duty COPA person's cell phone, such as myself, in which we'll then dispatch out of our mobile EATs. For 911 calls, unless a city resource is closer, we will respond our units.

For police work, we house our own patrol division, to aide PPD and TSD, as well as the area's traffic division, tasked with specialized traffic operations. We also have a TAC division, which is responsible for Tactical response. We are not the only SWAT team in the area however, we also may work with the PPD's SWAT team, or the TSD Tactical team, however we handle the majority of calls, considering both have small divisions with 2 trucks for PPD and one SUV for TSD.

Any questions on this? Please ask anything at all.

So, how many officers or cars does PPD have? I thought we had more than they did.

PPD itself has around 50 patrols cars, and at any given time, around 30 of them will be on the streets throughout Phoxlind. The other twenty cars will remain at the station for need of response, or maybe the officer assigned to it has some paperwork, but usually around 30 are out and about.
Their SWAT team consists of a Modified Cube Van Control post and a armoured SUV combo stair unit, that they can use to get up to a third story window or second story window, as well as knock down walls, etc.

You're probably thinking either TSD or the State Patrol. TSD has 2 cars, and about 10 officers. State Trooper has at any given time, around 2 cars in the city area, mostly on the highway or in town for certain events. They don't do much other than highway policing and special tasks, such as escorts

Woah, ok then. How many stations do PFD and TVFD have again? Shouldn't our response area (map) be any bigger?

I understand, this will be interesting and I look forward for more.

*I get to the front of the complex where I am greeted by one guard. I show him my badge and he lets me through. As I weave through the road, I come to the building.*
'This place is huge,'
*I park my car in the lot, get out and put on my uniform shirt sitting in the passenger seat next to me. I then close my door and after locking my door, go inside. I get the blue shoulder bars and I somewhat reluctantly put it on.*
'Feel like a recruit.'
*I shake my head and walk through the hallway to find room 101.*
'There's no one else here?'
*I look around but then I just sit down in the front seat feeling a bit nervous not knowing what I'm going to learn today. I sit back and text Cheryl to let her know what I'm doing. I put my phone on silent then put it away. I lean forward in the chair and start to take in my surroundings.*
JOHN HANNAHAN HERE

*I pull up in an empty parking space, walk inside and see the guard*
'Hi, i'm here for the room 101 training'
Guard: ok, here is your blue shoulder straps
*I put on the shoulder straps*
Guard: I just need to see youre badge and your free to go
*I show him my badge and he let's me through. I walk into room 101 and Hannhan*
'Hey man!'
AUSTIN BOTFISH HERE

*I look back at Austin when we walks in.*
'Hey man, how ya feelin'? You doing good?'

'Yeah! Can't wait to start the class'
*I sit down*

I drive into the training academy and park next to Botfish's car, I open the door, show my ID and put my blue recruit bars on and enter room 101.

"Hey guys!"

MITCH DANIELS HERE

'Sup!'
*I say looking at Mitch*

"Nothing much, just wondering what will happen in this class."

'I wonder if we'll be...nevermind haha.'
*I turn back around and wait for Burke to come in.*

I park my POV in front and walk in.

'May I see your ID?' a guard asks
'Sure mate' I say as I show my ID
'Its okay, welcome to the TA'

I put on blue shoulder bars and walk to room 101
'Sup guys?'

FLORIAN JANSEN HERE

'Hey, noot much!'

'Okay, has the DC showed up yet?'

'No, not yet'

'Ah okay, btw I'm feeling like a probie with the blue bars hahaha'

'I thought the same thing haha!'

'That's how I felt haha. Hey Austin, I meant to ask before, you have any experience before this? I mean before ERT at all.'

'Guys, I've been here since the door was unlocked (topic was opened), been at the desk... Glad none of you are investigators..'

J. Hannahan wrote:Woah, ok then. How many stations do PFD and TVFD have again? Shouldn't our response area (map) be any bigger?

PFD has two main stations, as well as one in conjunction with the industrial park that has special equipment for industrial fires. TVFD has the one station. Our response map is active to city limits, all the area beyond, if it falls within our limits, is unzoned forest, and has no paths into it, so it isn't mapped. Phoxlind is currently expanding, and our map will get an update soon.

'No, no experiance at all'

*i walk in and sit down and listin to the conversation going on*

Beard here

'For some reason, I didn't notice you there haha. How ya been Burke?'
*I look around to see Bruce coming in.*
'Hey Bruce.'

'I guess I didnt see you DC, and I am former investigator haha, when do we start?'

(Read the first post, that's the start of class)
'It's former for a reason' I say with a chuckle ' Anyone have a question pertaining to this course?'

* I walk into the breakroom and grab a seat, put my Pencil and Paper on the desk, set my Pepsi on the floor and sit attentivly in class. I see Botfish, Hannahan and a crew it seems from the squad but wonder where all my guys are. *

' Hey everybody how goes it. '

LT. John Floan Here

'ERTPD share patrol sections with PPd right? So does that mean that PPD gets more calls than we do? I don't know why but either the crime is going up or PPD is not doing there job in my perspective. Is this true? Does PPD have lower funding than we do so they can't patrol as much?'

'That was a predictable answer DC' I say with a grin

* I raise my hand *

' So when the ERT Was created why were we made a 3rd in response back-up. Why not make us 1st in and PFD, PPD and TSD Secondary resoinse units?. How different are they comparativly. '

'We would be awfully busy then! If anything a 2nd in response'

*I park and walk in, flashing my ID and taking the blue bars from the guard. I go up to the room and sit down.*

*I drive to the academy and park my POV outside, get out, and lock the door. I walk inside, the desk sergeant greets me. I present my ID, and he hands me my blue bars before he signs me in. I hold the bars in my left hand, looking at them, then glance at my badge with the words "Lieutenant" on it. I look back at the bars, it feels weird having to put them on after all this time in the ERT... I look up at the desk sergeant, he gives me a half smile, he probably read my mind...
I put the bars on my shoulder flaps as I walk to the class room, then enter the room and sit down. I get my notepad and pen out from my pocket, flip through it to a blank page and make sure my pen is working. I look up to Burke at his desk and say out loud:*

'Halls here.'

*I pull up to the gate and the gaurd asks me for an ID. I pull it out my wallet and show it to me. He lets ma pass, so I put the ID away and drive through the complex. I come to the building and park my car next to Hannahan's. Then I get out and put on my blue stripes. I walk into the classroom.*

'Hey, what's up guys?!'

((What will we be tested on exactly? The info in the 1st post?))

DAVIS HERE

(there isn't a test)

I raise my hand after taking a sip from my Red Bull.

"So our complex is the national headquarters, do we have any others and where are they. Also do we only have the Training Academy or do the others have one to?"

* i pull up the the complex and park my impala next to floan's*
* i walk into the building and shpw the guards my badge and recieve my blue bars and plae them on my shirt*
* i walk into 101 and look around*
' hey guys, ready to go back to school? Hey burke'
Tim Matthews here

J. Hannahan wrote:'ERTPD share patrol sections with PPd right? So does that mean that PPD gets more calls than we do? I don't know why but either the crime is going up or PPD is not doing there job in my perspective. Is this true? Does PPD have lower funding than we do so they can't patrol as much?'

Patrol is shared among several departments. We have jurisdiction anywhere in the United States, so we act as a patrol supplement. PPD has average funding for a city police department, and can survive on their own, we just act as a patrol supplement. And with at max 8 cars at any time in the area, it's not that much extra units from us.

J.Floan wrote:* I raise my hand *

' So when the ERT Was created why were we made a 3rd in response back-up. Why not make us 1st in and PFD, PPD and TSD Secondary resoinse units?. How different are they comparativly. '

ERT, as you can see from the history, was created many years ago as a volunteer assistance group. As the area grew, we were made paid, and then starting taking over jobs of former departments that couldn't hold funding, such as Phoxlind Area police, which was split between us and the current day PPD. We act as a patrol supplement for the area, assisting whereever needs to extra coverage. For fire, we are a secondary response to most calls because of our location in the area, we're in between everything, and not really on either side. If the country club catches fire, we go first, since we're closest. The third response is for 911 calls. There are two operators working the area's call centre at the PFD headquarters. If both decline the call, then depending on origin, it'll be sent to TSD or PPD, if neither can answer that call, then we are given it, and someone will answer it, as we have a staffed COPA, and command officers like myself also have it routed to their cell phones if needed.

M.Daniels wrote:I raise my hand after taking a sip from my Red Bull.

"So our complex is the national headquarters, do we have any others and where are they. Also do we only have the Training Academy or do the others have one to?"

There are currently 52 ERT's across the country, one in every state, the other two being in Washington DC and in the Nevada/SoCal desert area between LA and LV, mostly to assist with those types of emergencies. Each one may not be a full winged complex, like us, with all the divisions, as some may not need it, IE the New York City office doesn't need an EMS service, they run everything out of fire and PD. They do haqve a mass casualty bus, but that is run by the fire department mostly in the event of a hospital shortage. There are substanstially less Training Academies. We have a total of ten, one in Alaska, our main academy (the most advanced), one outside of Huston, New York City, Los Angeles/Las Vegas Station, Miami, Hawaii (marine mostly), Detroit, Washington (police only) and one shared between the Canadian and American borders at Maine, mostly for police, but also specializing in marine and fire. EMS is currently in development at that station. There is only one training Academy located on the grounds of the actual complex, the rest are all seperate complexes, this one is Las Vegas/Los Angeles, simply because of their call volume they can train there. This academy is only open to serving ERT members, and they serve half and half as cadets or instructors and as actual personnel.


Do we have anymore questions? I will dismiss this class come an hours time if no more questions exist, if you don't get the chance to ask, I'll be accepting your questions via PM to answer for next class (Sunday)

(For the new map can you put the locations for all of the 4+ fd station sites.)

(They are already on the map.. If you look at buildings of interest, it includes all buildings of interest and stations)

Class ended, you may all return to duty

(I was talking about the ERT fd stations)

*I get up and walk out of the classroom, then turn in the blue bars at the front desk and the desk sergeant signs me out. I put away my notepad after reading through the notes, got some new details down anyhow...
I go outside and get into my POV, then drive to the HQ.*

I get out of class and head back to the station

*I walk out of the room and to my POV after handing the guard back the blue stripes then head to the station*

(Right now, we have one fire station. The new map will include station 2)

*I leave the room and go straight to work.*

*I hop into my POV and head out of the complex. I go through the gate and drive back to the station. On my way, I see P11 and L1 fly by. They give me a wave and I keep driving toward the station.*

*I walk out of the bulding, flashing the guard the peace sign. I get in my POV and leave.*

I exit the training academy in my car and head to the station in the complex. I walk over to the RA and check everything is there and stage my gear there.