ICS stands for
What is Incident Command System?
An occurrence or event, natural or human caused that requires a response to protect life or property.
What is an incident?
Every incident must have a verbal or written ________.
What is Incident Action Plan
Provide information, safety, and liaison services for the entire organization.
What is Command Staff?
What year was ICS developed?
Pertains to the number of individuals or resources that one supervisor can manage effectively on emergency response incidents
What is Span of control?
In ICS the effective span of control for any supervisor can range from __________.
What is Between 3 and 7 subordinates
Serves as the primary contact for supporting agencies assigned to an incident?
What is Liaison Officer?
What prompted the development of ICS?
What is Series of catastrophic fires in California's Urban Interface?
Number of individuals or resources that one supervisor can manage effectively on emergency response incidents
What is Span of Control?
Where the IC oversees the incident.
What is Incident Command Post?
Monitors safety conditions and develops measures for assuring the safety of all assigned personnel
What is Safety Officer?
ICS is a component of NIMS. What is NIMS?
What is The National Incident Management System?
Divisions have ________ responsibility and groups have ________ responsibility.
What is geographic/functional
When partners representing multiple jurisdictions or agencies work together to establish the incident objectives, what type of Command is being used?
What is Unified Command?
Serves as the conduit for information to internal and external stakeholders, including the media or other organizations seeking information directly from the incident.
PIO-Public Information Officer
What is the most essential element of ICS
What is communication?
The 5 major management functions of ICS
What is Incident Command, Operations, Planning, Logistics, Finance?
Incident Action Plans must have what 4 elements?
What is What do we want to do? Who is responsible for doing it? How do we communicate with each other? What is the procedure is someone is injured?
Position that is always staffed in ICS applications.
What is Incident Commander?