Types of Incidents
This type of incident refers to a major breach of information systems resulting in significant digital compromise.
Cyberattack
According to FEMA and the CDC, this is the minimum number of days a household should be able to sustain itself with stored supplies during an emergency
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DSW
Disaster Service Worker
This command function sets incident objectives, strategies, and priorities, holding overall responsibility for managing the incident.
Incident Command
On June 1, 2026, the CDC activated its Emergency Operations Center in preparation for this major international sporting event.
World Cup
If you’re unable to evacuate during an emergency, planning with neighbors, friends, or relatives ensures someone can care for or relocate these members of your household
Pets
FEMA
Federal Emergency Management Agency
This section of the Incident Command System carries out incident activities, establishes tactics, and directs all resources to achieve the incident objectives.
Operations
This type of disaster response challenge in California during the 1960s and 70s led to the development of what became the universal Incident Command System.
Wildfires
This portable device is recommended for storing scanned copies of vital documents like birth certificates so you have a digital backup during emergencies when physical copies may be unreachable
Flash drive
California Office of Emergency Services
This section of the Incident Command System supports the incident action process by tracking resources, analyzing information, and maintaining essential documentation.
Planning
This highly contagious virus, once declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, resurged in 2025 with nearly 1,300 cases across 38 states—the biggest outbreak in 33 years
Measles
To ensure someone in your support network can access your home, emergency supplies, and lifesaving equipment when you can’t, you should give them this essential item.
Key
ICS
Incident Command System
Arranges for resources and needed services to support achievement of the incident objectives (resources can include personnel, equipment, teams, supplies, and facilities).
Logistics
This U.S. city became the center of a major public health emergency from 2014 to 2016 after its water supply was switched from Lake Huron to the Flint River in a cost‑saving move.
Flint, Michigan
This practice activity helps everyone become familiar with an emergency plan so it feels automatic during a real crisis
Drill
EOC
Emergency Operations Center
Monitors costs related to the incident. Provides accounting, procurement, time recording, and cost analyses.
Finance