| The purpose of "Camp Hurricane", July 27-28, 2005 in Tampa, Florida at the Tampa Fire Training Academy is to educate researchers about the particulars of hurricane response, provide field conditions to try out equipment and ideas, and create an "immersive" experience.
There will be formal talks by Florida rescue professionals (FL-TF3) and law enforcement about their experiences during the 2004 Florida Hurricane Season and their technology desirements. In addition there are facilities available for experimentation with your (and our) equipment in an outdoor mock disaster environment.
Attendees will have access to:
- A rubble pile AND multi-story buildings that can be filled with smoke.
- Scheduled time wiht responders to provide "quality time" with you.
- Night Operations
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicle operation are adjecent to a rubble pile.
- Familiarization and instruction on robots and sensors you can borrow through the R4 program.
- Optional 10-hour course in rescue robots developed for the emergency response community (space permitting)
- Cost: There is no registration fee, though there will be a small charge for meals (not to exceed per diem rates). Sorry, the R4 program does not provide travel scholarships.
UPDATE: Due to the early hurricanes this season the shelters at the Fire Training Academy are in use for equipment storage for the fire department. The camp out on July 27th is cancelled since we were going to be staying in these shelters. You will need a hotel for that night as well as the 26th. Night Operations will still be held as scheduled after which you will return to your hotel.
EQUIPMENT YOU SHOULD BRING:
- Bug Spray - you will need this for night ops.
- Steel toe boots - you need this for working on the rubble pile. Crushing your toes with a boulder isn't fun.
- Long sleve shirt that you don't care about. This is to protect your arms if you fall on the rubble. You won't get so scraped up if you are wearing long sleves.
- Blue jeans or other denim pants. Same as the shirt, but for your legs.
- Leather gardening gloves, not too thick but you want to keep your hands from getting beat up on the rocks.
Tentative Schedule:
- July 25
- Early Bird Welcome Reception and No-Host Dinner
- July 26
- 8am-6pm: Rescue Robots Awareness Training Class (optional and by space permitting) at University of South Florida
- 8pm: BBQ Dinner
- July 27
- 8:00am - 9:00: Check in, introductions
- 9:00 - 11:00: Overview of Hurricane Response: US&R, Medical, Law Enforcement
- 11:00 - 12:00: Working Lunch
- 1:30pm - 5:00: Experimentation on rubble pile
- 5:00 - 6:00: Outbrief
- 6:00 - 8:00: Dinner on-site
- 8:00 - 10:00: Display and interaction with R4 cache
- 10:00pm - ?: Night operations and data collection
- July 28
- 7:00am: Field breakfast on-site
- 8:00 - 10:00: Experimentation in buildings, rope insertion of technology, smoke
- 10:30 - 12:00: Realistic Scenario Exercise using technology insertion from participants
- 12:00 - 1:30: Working lunch and outbrief
- 1:30 - 3:30: Tear-down & clean up
- 3:30 - 5:30: Programming with R4 equipment & software (optional)
Click here for a list of hotels in the area (MapQuest)
Click here for a map of the area with driving directions from USF to the Tampa Fire Academy
To reserve space and get more details, please respond to JEFF CRAIGHEAD craighea-AT-cse.usf.edu with the number of people, the equipment you will be bringing, what you'd like to do, and any requests. |
