Preparing Command Staff personnel for training in the fine art of managing an Incident Command System (ICS) incident is really no more difficult than planning for the invasion of Europe in 1944.

All State of California employees are considered “disaster service workers” and may be called on to provide assistance if a disaster occurs. Since the SEMS/ICS system will be used by first responders ...

While the incident command system (ICS) is important to fire chiefs and officers, it is also refreshing to examine it from the firefighter’s perspective. More to the point, we need to look at ...

Purdue University’s Integrated Emergency Management Plan (IEMP) uses a management system widely known as the Incident Command System (ICS). The ICS provides an organizational structure capable of ...

established by FEMA in 2004 includes the utilization of a standardized approach to managing critical incidents through the use of the Incident Command System (ICS). Essentially NIMS and the ...

This is the "What and How" behind the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District's Incident Command System (ICS), implemented soon after the attacks of September 11, 2001. "As the events of ...

The main questions being asked by the fire service are: What’s in the NIMS that is not covered by the incident command system (ICS)? Has the ICS changed? Will the NIMS dictate fire service ...

On multi-unit responses, the job of the incident ... that ICs do everything in their power to restore order, stop the chaos and minimize exposure to risk. True practitioners of command decision ...

InciNotes provides the tools to make it easy for the Incident Commander to document his or her Leader's Intent. InciNotes provides comprehensive ICS 201 & ICS 214 documentation tools in an iPad ...

Emergency situations are simply a part of life, but schools now have a wider range of tech tools to help support the coordination and execution of their Incident Command System, or ICS. State-funded ...

the ability to strategically track companies operating on the fireground becomes harder and harder for the incident commander (IC). To overcome this situation, ICs in the Phoenix Fire Department ...

This class is very important for those elected and appointed officials who have statutory or delegated authority to act on behalf of your political subdivision, whether county, city, school district, ...