This ICS position is responsible for coordinating all activities at the incident site.
What is the Incident Commander
100
The Federal level agency tasked with the primary responsibility for managing disaster response in the United States.
What is the Federal Emergency Management Agency?
100
This weather event directly affected 5 U.S. states, killed over 1800 victims, displaced more than 1 million people, and cost an estimated $75 billion in physical damages.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
100
The four basic requirements for human survival.
What are air, water, shelter and food?
100
This hazard affects Western Washington annually, in particular communities located near the Skykomish, Nooksak, Cowlitz, Skagit, Stillaguamish, Snohomish, & Snoqualmie rivers.
What is flooding?
200
The designated on-scene location from where the incident is managed.
What is the Incident Command Post?
200
This program educates people about disaster preparedness for hazards that may impact their area and trains them in basic disaster response skills.
What is a Community Emergency Response Team?
200
This country suffered a massive earthquake in April 2010 that killed an estimated 220,000 people.
What is Haiti?
200
This common household appliance can cause a fire as a result of an earthquake if not properly strapped in place.
What is a hot water heater?
200
This hazard occurs primarily on the eastern side of the state, affecting ten's of thousands of acres every year.
What is wildfire?
300
The ICS position responsible for engaging the media during an incident response.
Who is the Public Information Officer?
300
A standing group of organized individuals utilized to assist with the administration and coordination of emergency response activities.
What is an Incident Management Team?
300
A 1985 earthquake in this city killed an estimated 10,000 people and indirectly led to the the development of the Community Emergency Response Team concept by the Los Angeles Fire Department.
What is Mexico City?
300
The minimum amount of stored water recommended by FEMA to have in preparation for a disaster.
What is 3 gallons per person (1 gallon per person for 3-days)?
300
This is most frequent recurring hazard in Washington State, including notable examples that occurred in 1962, 1993, 2006, 2007, 2009
What are windstorms?
400
The Incident Commander, the PIO, the Safety Officer, the Liaison Officer, and the Section Chiefs
What is the Command and General Staff?
400
This 501(c)(3) organization is one of two co-lead agencies responsible for providing mass care to disaster survivors in the U.S.
What is the American Red Cross?
400
The 1815 eruption of Mt. Tambora on this island country killed an estimated 92,000 people, and resulted in what was known world-wide as the "Year Without a Summer" due to massive amounts of ash sent into the atmosphere.
What is Indonesia?
400
In your home, in your vehicle, and at your place of work.
What are the three locations to keep an emergency kit?
400
It's a common misconception that Washington does not experience this natural hazard, more typically associated with mid-western states.
What are tornadoes?
500
This action by President George W. Bush established the requirement for all government institutions to adopt NIMS and ICS as a condition of receiving preparedness related funding.
What is Homeland Security Presidential Directive - 5
500
This former volunteer firefighter currently leads the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Who is Craig Fugate?
500
The response to this Spanish city's 1755 earthquake and subsequent tsunami and fire is cited by some emergency managers to be the earliest example of a formal post-disaster recovery plan.
What is Lisbon?
500
This social media tool is currently being described as one of the most powerful technologies available to the emergency management community since weather radar and satellite imagery.
What is Twitter?
500
Washington State is subject to three types of earthquakes: crustal, deep and subduction zone. Our state is considered overdue for a seismic incident from this subduction zone fault.