ICS-100
The person responsible for overseeing the entire incident.
Who is the Incident Commander?
This is the most important part of any incident and is everybody's responsibility.
What is Safety?
This system provides a nationwide template for responders to work together to prevent, protect, respond, recover from, and mitigate the effects of incidents
What is the National Incident Management System?
This activity ensures the orderly, safe, and efficient return of a resource to its original location and status.
What is Demobilization?
This document includes incident summary, incident objectives & tactics, personnel assignments, and communications plans.
What is the Incident Action Plan (IAP)?
This Mission Area is defined as "reducing loss of life and property by lessening the impact of disasters."
What is Mitigation?
This ICS section contains the "DOERS" who are responsible for getting things done.
What is the Operations Section?
This document is designed to outline the positive and negative outcomes of incident response following an event, as well as provide suggestions for corrective actions.
What is the After-Action Report/ Improvement Plan?
This is a collaborative approach for multiple incident commanders from multiple jurisdictions to develop a single set of objectives.
What is Unified Area Command?
This system ensures coordinated and accurate public messaging during an incident.
What is a Joint Information System or JIS?
This NIMS structure directly supports on-scene command from an off-site location through multiagency coordination and resourcing.
What are Emergency Operations Centers, or EOCs?
This is a collaborative approach for multiple incident commanders to develop a single set of objectives.
What is Unified Command?
This ICS Section arranges for the resources and services needed to support the incident.
What is the Logistics Section?
Upon arriving at an incident, a more senior person may do this with the current incident commander.
What is maintain command or transfer command?
This is a defined period of time during an incident to complete a given set of operational actions.
What is an Operational Period?
This is a method of Categorizing incidents according to their complexity.
What is Incident Typing?
This EOC structure mirrors day-to-day organizational structures that allow agency representatives to perform with minimal preparation or startup time.
What is a Departmental EOC Structure?
This group is composed of senior officials, agency administrators who are authorized to represent or commit agency resources and funds in support of incident activities.
What is a Multi-Agency Coordinating Group? (MAC)
This NIMS Management Characteristic ensures a single, orderly line of authority through the hierarchy of the Incident Management System.
What is Chain of Command?
During an incident, unassigned resources go here.
What is the Staging Area?
This ICS Form is also known as the Incident Communications Plan.
What is ICS Form 205?
This is the process used to empower an Incident Commander to perform authorities that are typically reserved for agency executives or administrators.
What is Delegation of Authority?
This Command Staff member is the Incident Commander's point of contact for external partners involved in the incident response.
Who is the Liaison Officer?
These are the five Mission Areas as defined by the National Response Framework.
What are Prevention, Protection, Mitigation, Response, and Recovery?
Personnel Check-in, Incident Action Planning, Personal Responsibility, and Resource Tracking are necessary to ensure this NIMS management characteristic.
What is Accountability?
The primary purpose of the transfer of command process in incident management.
What is to maintain continuity and effectiveness?
In an incident, this is when evaluation of personnel resources should occur.
What is throughout the incident?
This is a second-in-command position title that may be established for each General Staff position.
What is a Deputy?
This NIMS communication and information systems principle ensures that response personnel from multiple organizations can interact and work together.
What is Interoperability?
This is the systematic process of engaging the whole community to identify resources needed to meet defined objectives.
What is Planning?
Qualification, Certification, and Credentialing Personnel are part of this NIMS Management Characteristic.
What is Comprehensive Resource Management?
This is the primary purpose of HSPD-5 in the context of incident management.
What is improving interagency coordination?
The purpose of this meeting is to present the Incident Action Plan to the supervisors who will be employed in the upcoming Operational Period.
What is the Operations Briefing?
This is the name of the ICS organizational level within the Operations Section that can be used to divide organizations within a specific geographic area.
What is a Division?
These are the three major components of NIMS.
What are Resource Management, Command and Control, and Communications and Information Management?
These three Core Capabilities span all seven Mission Areas.
What are: Planning, Public Information and Warning, and Operational Coordination?