Principles
Organization
Operations
Planning
Log/Finance/ Administration
100
The facility at which the primary command functions are carried out.
What is the Incident Command Post?
100
The Section Chief who is responsible for staging areas.
Who is the Operations Section Chief?
100
This section is responsible for the service and support needs of responders.
What is the Logistic Section?
100
The unit that oversees the check-in of all incident resources.
What is the Resources Unit?
100
The Support and Service Branches fall under this section.
What is the Logistics Section
200
The person who sets objectives for the incident.
Who is the Incident Commander?
200
This position meets with the press/media and releases accurate, accessible, and timely incident information.
What is the Public Information Officer
200
This section deals with tactics related to the incident. They are referred to as the doers and are usually the first and most frequently activated.
What is the Operation Section?
200
This Section is responsible for the collection, evaluation, and dissemination of tactical information related to the incident, and for preparation of incident action plans.
What is the Planning Section?
200
The position that the Communications Unit Leader works for and provides all facilities, transportation, communications, supplies, equipment maintenance and fueling, food and medical services for incident personnel, and all off- incident resources.
Who is the Logistics Section Chief? Who is the Incident Commander?
300
The immediate priorities established by the Incident Commander.
What are life safety, incident stabilization, and property conservation?
300
This position is responsible for coordinating with representatives from cooperating and assisting agencies.
What is the Liason Officer?
300
This section is responsible for all incident costs and considerations.
What is the Finance/Administration Section?
300
When a more qualified individual arrives at an incident this may happen with the incident command.
What is Transfer of Command?
300
The position that the Security Manager works for.
Who is the Facilities Unit Leader? Who is the Incident Commander?
400
The process, in a multi-agency incident, of establishing a common set of objectives and strategies without losing agency authority, responsibility, or accountability.
What is Unified Command?
400
This position is the only position in ICS that has the authority to overrule the Incident Commander.
What is the Safety Officer?
400
The concept by which each person within an organization reports to one and only one designated person. This minimizes micromanagement.
What is Unity of Command?
400
Contains objectives reflecting the overall incident strategy, specific tactical actions, and supporting information for the next operational period.
What is the Incident Action Plan?
400
The unit that arranges the purchase of resources.
What is the Procurement Unit? Who is the Finance Unit Leader?
500
NIIMS
What is the acronym for the National Interagency Incident Management System?
500
The first person to arrive on a scene of an incident.
Who is the Incident Commander?
500
The supervisory ratio from three to seven individuals, with five to one being established as optimum.
What is Span of Control?
500
Locations set up at an incident where resources can be placed while awaiting a tactical assignment.
What is a Staging Area
500
The orderly, safe, and efficient return of an incident resource to its original location and status.
What is demobilization?
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