Acronyms
Incident Command
EOC
ICS Structure
MISC.
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The EOC is an acronym for this

What is Emergency Operations Center

100

An event that has disrupted or has the potential to disrupt normal ops & require emergency response actions.

What is an incident.

100

This group provides policy direction to the IC and EOC

Who is the E-Team

100

The two staff sections of the ICS structure consist of General Staff and this...

What is Command Staff?

100

FEMA says that 5 personnel to 1 supervisor is the optimal number for this type of control

What is span of control?

200

NIMS stands for this

What is the National Incident Management System

200

The three incident priorities are Saving & protecting lives, stabilizing and incident and this: 

What is protecting property & environment

200

The EOC is activated at one of three levels; Full Activation, Partial Activation, and this...

What is Monitoring?

200

A Division is divided by geography while a Group is divided by this...

What is Response Function?

200

The Crisis Communications Plan is maintained by this Group at Denver Water...

Who is Public Affairs?

300

SMART is an acronym for these goal-setting criteria...

What are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound

300

Objectives are determined and used to create this plan: 

What is the Incident Action Plan

300

Name one of the groups or partners that the EOC will share information with.

Who are External partners, E-team, Internal partners, Stakeholders?

300

A briefing is where information is shared. At a meeting, section chiefs and response leadership decide on...

What are actions and tactics?

300

This preparedness plan addresses all-hazards that the organization might face

What is the Emergency Operations Plan

400

COOP is an acronym for this plan

What is Continuity of Operations Plan

400

When incident command changes between incident commanders, this exchange takes place

What is transfer of command? 

400

The decision to deactivate the EOC is done by this EOC staff member...

Who is the EOC Manager?

400

This meeting is where the objectives are established.

What is the Objectives Meeting?

400

Following the end of response, the on-scene responders gather quickly and hold this type of debriefing

What is a hotwash?

500

JIC is also known as this.

What is the Joint Information Center

500

The incident commander develops these incident response goals with this acronym in mind

What is SMART

500

The EOC primarily does two things with the information that comes in...

What is Analyzes and Shares info with others who need to be included

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At the starts of each operational period, information is shared at this gathering.

What is the Operational Period Briefing?

500

When speaking with other agencies and responders, we should avoid jargon and use this type of terminology

What is Common Terminology

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