1. Managing the Fireground Using Technology NIEM 2009

2. Xenophon “Yo” Gikas, Jr. Captain Los Angeles Fire Department

3. NIEM 2009 Xenophon “Yo” Gikas, Jr. Captain Los Angeles Fire Department

4. NIEM 2009 Los Angeles Metrics  Los Angels County  88 Incorporated Cities  Largest population(over 10 million) in the Nation  Coastline of 81 Miles  4,084 Square Miles  Los Angels City  Second Largest City in US  4.1 M Population  470 Square Miles  106 Fire Stations Universal, ABC, CBS, NBC, Disney Studios Kodak Theatre (Academy Awards) Convention CenterStaples Center Rose BowlDowntown Area LA/Long Beach PortsLAX Los Angeles ColiseumHollywood (sign)

5. NIEM 2009 Los Angeles Fire Department Voice – 18 Channel, Conventional, Analog, Simulcast Data: 4 Channel, Motorola DataTac Station Alerting: 2 line, 56kbps Administration Network: T1 MDC - Panasonic Toughbooks in Apparatus CAD - Home Grown

6. NIEM 2009 Los Angeles Fire Department Computerized Fire and EMS Reports Email Word Processing Electronic Timekeeping (paper redundancy) Dispatch Messaging Instructional DVDs Web Portal

7. NIEM 2009 Our World is Changing …We Need to Adapt

8. NIEM 2009 We Need Information Building Inventories Resource Availability ** Sensor Status Hospitals ** Maps Imagery Pre-Plans Weather

9. NIEM 2009 Communications Real Time Two Way Multi Path ?? Everywhere Collaborative All Levels

10. NIEM 2009 Tactical Information Project Core Platform – ICBRNE, AWARE, HIP Standards Based – IP, EDXL, OGC… “Best of Breed” Mobile Client Software Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) GPS MESH Capabilities

11. NIEM 2009 Automatic Vehicle Location Resource Tracking Hot Spots Coverage Smart Routing Learning System

12. NIEM 2009 Resource Accountability #1 Priority “F-666” Have to be at CP

13. NIEM 2009 Resource Accountability Drag & Drop Annotate Collaborate Share

14. NIEM 2009 Confined Space/Hazmat Operations

15. NIEM 2009 Confined Space Operation

16. NIEM 2009 Real Time Sensor Monitoring

17. NIEM 2009 ICBRNE – Los Angeles Fielded System CAP Common Alerting Protocol CAP Common Alerting Protocol EDXL-DE Distribution Element COTS Situational Awareness Applications All Instruments Operate the same

18. NIEM 2009 ICBRNE – Los Angeles Fielded System Direct – Ex: ADASHI Federal – OPEN/DMIS

19. NIEM 2009 ICBRNE – CAP Alerts

20. NIEM 2009 Sensor Server

21. NIEM 2009 A Standards Story Four Feet, Eight and a Half Inches Standard gauge railway lines are used in Britain, Europe, the USA, & many other countries. It is used on such high speed lines as France's TGV, Germany's ICE, & Japan's Bullet Trains. Standard gauge, in railway terminology, means a distance between the rails of 4 feet, 8 ½ inches or 1.435 meters. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, & English expatriates built railways all around the world. Why did the English build them like that? Because the first railway lines were built by the same people who built the pre- railway tramways, and that's the gauge they used. Why did they use that gauge in England, then?

22. NIEM 2009 A Standards Story Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing. Okay! Why did their wagons use that odd wheel spacing? Because, if they tried to use any other spacing the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads. Because that's the spacing of the old wheel ruts. So who built these old rutted roads? The first long distance roads in Europe were built by Imperial Rome for the benefit of their legions. The Roman roads have been used ever since. And the ruts? The original ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagons, were first made by the wheels of Roman war chariots.

23. NIEM 2009 A Standards Story Since the chariots were made for or by Imperial Rome they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. Thus, we have the answer to the original question. The standard railway gauge of 4 feet, 8 1/2 inches derives from the original specification for an Imperial Roman army war chariot. What’s the Point?

24. NIEM 2009 The next time you are handed a specification and wonder what “Horse's Ass” came up with it, you may be exactly right. Because the Imperial Roman chariots were made to be just wide enough to accommodate the back-ends of two war-horses. A Standards Story

25. NIEM 2009 Thank You! Xenophon “Yo” Gikas, Jr.

26. NIEM 2009 Managing the Fireground Using Technology NIEM 2009