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jursisdictional-having statutory responsibility for incident management.
assisting or cooperating-providing resources or other assistance. |
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| the process of acquiring, collecting, processing, analyzing, monitoring, interpreting, to provide a basis for decision making |
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| the organizational level having functional or geographical responsibility for major incident operations. Organizational situated between the Section Chief and and the division group in the operations section and between the section and units in the logistics sections. Branches are identified by Roman numerals or functional area. |
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| the organizational level having responsibility for operations within a defined geographic area |
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| rsesponsible for providing facilities, services and meterials for the incident. |
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| an occurrence or event, natural or human-caused that requires a response to protect life or property |
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| is based upon the concepts of interoperability, reliability, scalability portability, resilence and redundancy. |
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| without ics, incident responses typically |
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lack accountability, have poor communications, use unsystematic planning processes,
are unable to efficiently integrate reposnders |
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is a standardized management tool for meeting the demands of small or large emergency and non emergency situations;
represents best practices and has become the standard for emergency management across the country;is a key feature of NIMs |
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| the orderly line of authority within the ranks of the incident management organization. |
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| every individual has a designated supervisor to whom he os she reports at the scene od the incident |
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supervisors to individuals
1:3 and 1:7 with optimal being 1:5 or between 1:8 and 1:10 |
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| develops in a top down, modular fashion that is based on the size and complexity of the incident. |
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| MANAGEABLE SPAN OF CONTROL |
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| within ICS three to five subordinates |
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| The act of directing ordering, or controlling, by virtue of explicit statutory, regulatory, or delegated authority |
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| at an incident scene, has the authority to assume command |
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| REASONS COMMAND MAY BE TRANSFERRED |
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a more qualified incident commander arrives;
a jurisdiction or agency is legally required to take command;
incident complexity changes;
the current incident commander needs to rest |
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| five steps to assuming command of an incident in progress. |
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step 1; incoming incident commander should perform an assessment of the situation with the existing commander.
STEP 2; incoming incident commander must be adequately briefed
STEP3; after the incident briefing, the incoming commander should determine an appropriate time for transfer of command
STEP4; at the appropriate time,notice of a change in incident command should be made
step5;the incoming incident commander may give the previuos incident commander another assignment on the incident |
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| incident action plan (iap) |
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specifies the incident objectives;
states the activites;
covers a specified timeframe, called an operational period;
may be oral or written |
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| temporary location at an incident where personnnel and equipment wait to be assigned |
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| location from which primary logistics and administrative functions are coordinated and administered |
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| location where resources may be kept to support incident operations. camps are equipped and staffed to provide food, water, sleeping area, and sanitary services |
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| location from which helicopter-centered air operations are conducted. |
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| temporary locations at the incident, where helicopters can safely land and take off |
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| incident command post (icp) |
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| location where incident commander oversees all operations. may be located outside, in a vehicle, trailer, or tent,or within a building. will located outside of the present hazard but close enough to maintain command |
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| personennel and major items of equipment, supplies, and facilities available or potentially avaialable for assignment to incident |
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| ics utilizes the principals of |
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| unity of command, chain of command, and transfer of command |
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| what # of major management functions upon which ics is based |
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| which position is the only one that is always staffed within the ics? |
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| on small events and incidents, one person, the ????? may accomplish all mgt functions |
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| if a section is not staffed within ics who is responsible for managing those functions |
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| the incident commander is responsible for |
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*ensuring incident safety
*providing information to internal and external stakeholders
*establishing and maintaining liason with other agencies participating in the incident |
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| how many positions are with the command staff |
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| pio, safety officer, liason officer |
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| monitors conditions and develops measures for assuring safety of all personell |
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| responds to requests from incident personell for contacts among the assisting and cooperating agencies and monitors incident operations to indentify current or potential problems between response agencies |
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the organizational levels with responsibility for a major functional area of the incident i.e operations, planning, logistics, finance/administration.
the person in charge of each section is called a chief.
section chiefs have the ability to expand their sections to meet the needs of the situation. reports directly to the incident commander |
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| used to divide an incident geographically. the person in charge of each divison is designated as a supervisor |
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| used when the number of divisions or groups exceeds exceeds the span of control.the person in charge of each branch is a director |
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| a combination of mixed resources with common communications operating under the direct supervision of a task leader |
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| a set number of resources of the same kind and type with common communications operating under the direct supervision of a strike team leader |
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| implementing strategy and tactics to accomplish the incident. organizes, assigns, and supervises all the tactical or response resouces assigned to the incident. if a staging area is established, the section chief would manage it. |
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| oversees the collection, evaluation and dissemination of operational information related to the incident. responsibility to prepare and disseminate the incident plan, as well as track the status of all resources. develops plans for demobilization |
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| responsible for providing material support for the incident. assists the incident commander and operations section chief by providing the resources and services required to support activites. during an incident responsible for providing food, water, and medical services, communication equipment, computers, transportation, and anything needed. |
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| finance and administration |
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| responsible for all the financial and cost analysis aspects of an incident. time keeping, cost analysis, compensation for injury or damaged property, documentation for reimbursement. |
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| what are the four ics sections |
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| operations, planning, logistics, finance and administration |
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*one of the 1st organizations assigned to the incident
*develops from the bottom up
*has the most resources
*may have staging areas and special organizations |
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| groups are used to perform functional areas of operation |
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| i.e east division supervisor, west division supervisor, ......... |
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| applies ics to multiple jurisdictions or agencies |
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| an overview of an incident by all relevant parties that provides incident information enabling the incident commander and any supporting agencies and organizations to make effective, consistent, and timely decisions |
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| predetermined complement of tools, equipment, and /or supplies stored in a designated location, available for incident use |
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| the ics title for individuals responsible for management of functional sections: operations, planning, logistics, finance/administration, intelligence/investigations |
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| the process of authoritatively attesting that individuals meet professional standards for the training, experience and performance required for key incident mgt functions |
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| normally used words and phrases |
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| the process of transmission of information through verbal, written, orsymbolic means |
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| 2 or more individuals located in the same general area and assigned to a single incident commander |
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| to advance systematically an analysis and exchange of information among principals who have a need to know certain information to carry out specific incident mgt |
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| the implementation of procedures that are based on lessons learned from actual incidents or from training and exercises |
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| the authentication and verification of the certification and identity of designation incident managers and emergency responders |
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| also know as-LETTER OF EXPECTATION |
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| the ics title for individuals responsible for supervision of a branch |
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| the ordered movement of a resource or resources to an assigned operational mission, or an administrative move from one location to another |
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| any incident, whetrher natural or manmade, that requires responsive action to protect life or property |
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| emergency mgt/response personel |
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| includes federal, state, territorial, tribal, substate.........and all other agencies, individuals...who assume an emergency mgt role. also known as emergency responders |
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| emergency operations center (eoc) |
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| the physical location at which the coordination of information and resources to support incident mgt. |
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| emergency operations plan (eop) |
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| an ongoing plan for responding to a wide variety of potential hazards |
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| emergency public information |
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| information that is disseminated primarly in anticipation of an emergency or during an emergency |
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| the organized, phased removal of civilians from dangerous areas |
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