SAFIRE USE CASES

Overview

The page elaborates on the specific use cases and user stories, mainly for the developers and testers.

User Stories

Search and Rescue

"Two hikers are reported missing in the national park; managing SAR."

1. A concerned parent, at 6pm, calls the emergency hotline: 112 to report two missing teenagers. possibly lost in the national park
2. The 112 call center staff opens a new incident report call log to record the case
3. The call center staff selects event type = missing person
4. Upon selecting the event type, the SOP standard questions are displayed
   1. Q: What is the event? A: two teenagers missing in Yala national park
   2. Q: Who am I speaking with? A: Mrs. Renuka Arambepola (mother)
   3. Q: How can we contact you? A: 01125552121
   4. Q: What are you calling about? A: "My son and his girl friend, both 17 years old, when hiking at 9am in the morning. They were supposed to return at 2pm. They haven't called and I cannot get through to their mobile 07654442121. I am worried. I think they said they were hikking to Kinrinda lake"
   5. Q: What is the immediate need? A: Send a search and rescue team to the area.
5. The call center staff calls the Park Ranger station to inform the situation
6. The Park Ranger station agrees to send a SAR team into the area.
7. The local fire station, park services, wildlife and fisheries reply to request with their capabilities and capacities (or SAFIRE automatically determines who should be dispatched from the Assets, Fleet, and Skills knowledge-base)
8. The police station situation room, updates the SAFIRE Crisis Map with dispatched teams and the search grids
9. Every 15 minutes the 3 SAR teams update their location and the status (found, determining, missing); Crisis Map is updated
10. Each member on of the SAR teams receive situational report updates on their mobile handhelds of the where has been searched what are potential hints
11. If the caller used a mobile phone, then they would receive text updates at various milestones of the SAR

Use Cases

Call Center manages:

Event scale	#Reports	#Teams	Activities
Small	Single	Single	receives call and initiates an incident report dispatches first-response team and updates event information incident is contained, report is updated, and event is closed
Medium	Single	Multiple	receives call and initiates an incident report dispatches first-response team and updates event information dispatch additional response teams and updates report incident is contained, report is updated, and event is closed
Large	Multiple	Multiple	receives call and initiates an incident report dispatches first-response team and updates event information more and more calls are received and incident reports are initiated, Call center alerts EOC Commander and event is taken over by Operations Unit Call center continues to record multiple reports and assigns to the same event

Operations Unit manages:

Event	SOP task lists	Resource status	Planning actions	Logistics actions
Common	Defined	Available	NA	NA
Common	Defined	Unavailable	NA	Find new resources and deliver
Uncommon	Undefined	Available	Plan new tasks and required resources	NA
Uncommon	Undefined	Unavailable	Plan new tasks and required resources	Find new resources and deliver