Roles & Responsibilities
Coordinates all tactical operations within the EOC.
Who is the Operations Section Coordinator?
The Operations Section communicates directly with these two key EOC entities.
What is the Planning Section and the EOC Director?
The Planning P begins with this phase when an incident occurs.
What is initial response?
ICS stands for this.
What is Incident Command System?
This is the first priority of the Operations Section in any disaster.
What is life safety?
This Unit manages evacuations and rescue operations.
What is the Fire & Rescue Unit?
This Unit would coordinate with Logistics to request barricades and heavy equipment.
What is the Engineering/Public Works Unit?
This meeting is used to develop the Incident Action Plan (IAP).
What is the EOC Action Planning Meeting?
ICS has this many main sections under the EOC Director.
What is four (Operations, Planning, Logistics, and Finance/Administration)?
This Unit is responsible for requesting sandbags and barricades during a flood response.
What is the Engineering/Public Works Unit (through Logistics)
This Unit ensures evacuees are provided shelter and basic needs.
What is the Care & Shelter Unit?
The Operations Section Units provide this during Section Meetings.
What are status updates, resource needs, and recommended objectives?
True or False: The Planning P only applies to field ICS, not the EOC.
What is False?
The EOC’s role is to provide this to the Incident Commander.
What is coordination and support?
This Section is responsible for coordinating transportation for evacuees.
What is the Logistics Section (with support from the Care & Shelter Unit)?
This Unit provides road clearance, barricades, and infrastructure support.
What is the Engineering/Public Works Unit?
This entity deals with rumors circulating on social media to correct misinformation.
Who is the Public Information Officer (PIO), with input from Operations?
In the Planning P, this is the step after the EOC Section Meeting.
What is the EOC Action Planning Meeting?
In ICS, this section is responsible for tracking incident costs.
What is the Finance/Administration Section?
Sets the priority of assignments for the Operations Section.
Who is the Operations Section Coordinator?
This Unit conducts windshield surveys and ATC-20 evaluations.
What is the Damage/Safety Assessment Unit?
These two Units usually make up the Unified Command.
What are Fire and Police?
The “P” shape represents these two types of activities in the incident management cycle.
What are the initial response phase and the ongoing operational cycle?
True or False: The EOC takes command of field resources during an incident.
What is False?
Operations Section should provide this to Planning at the end of each shift to support the next IAP cycle.
What is situation status, resource updates, and outstanding needs?