Organization
Let's Talk
Pot Pourri
Meetings
Common Terminology
100

This Section is responsible for handling claims related to property damage, injuries, or fatalities at the incident

What is the Finance Section or Finance/Administration Section

100

These ways are used to share up-to-date and accurate incident information with the public?

What are Warnings/alerts and Social/traditional media?

100

This ICS Form contains status information for briefing the incoming Incident Commander or team, or other resources.

What is the ICS 201 form or ICS Incident Briefing form

100
This meeting's purpose is to coordinate staff functions, resposibilities and objectives
What is The Command & General Staff Meeting
100

In IMS the members of the General Staff assume this title

What is Section Chief

200

Representatives from Assisting or Cooperating Agencies & Organizations coordinate thru this IMS Position

What is The Liaison Officer

200
The facility at which the primary command functions are carried out
What is the Incident Command Post
200
This form is used to record an individual's or unit's activity
What is ICS 214 Unit Log Form
200

The Command staff report directly to whom?

Who is the Incident Commander

200

In IMS, This is any person who is involved in responding to an incident 

What is a Responder?

300

The systematic and safe release of resources from an incident is known as?

What is Demobilization

300

Moving the responsibility for incident command from one incident commander to another

What is Transfer of Command

300

This form records the incident organization in a linear table-like format.

What is the ICS 203 Form.

300
The purpose of this meeting is to identify and prioritize objectives for the next operational period
What is the Unified Command Objectives Meeting
300

This term refers to the number of individuals or resources that one person can manage effectively during a response

What is Span of Control

400

The first and primary organizational component of the IMS structure is?

What is Command?

400

The IMS Principle that pertains to the number of individuals or resources that one supervisor can manage effectively.

What is Span of Control?

400

A verbal or written plan describing how an incident will be managed as determined by the Incident Commander or EOC Director?

What is an Incident Action Plan?

400
Input for this meeting includes a final ICS 202, current status, current resource inventory and a final draft ICS 215
What is the Planning Meeting
400

A designated location where personnel representing communities and organizations come together to support site response efforts?

What is an Emergency Operation Centre (EOC)?

500

This component is defined as being used when the number of Groups or Divisions exceeds the span of control

What is a Branch

500

The four components of Internal Information Management

What are Collect, Confirm, Analyze, Share

500

The Core Principles of IMS?

What are Communication, Coordination, Collaboration and Flexibility?

500
This meeting should occur before the start of the next operational period and should convey the plan for the next operational period to the response organization
What is the Operations Briefing
500
A location established to enable positioning of and accounting for resources not immediately assigned.
What is a Staging Area
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