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Individual incidents in the same geographical area assigned to the same IC/UC
What is an incident complex?
Advantage of Area Command
What is coordination between incidents?
Take direction from and report to a single person
What is Unity of Command?
Who has the responsibility to ensure conflicts are resolved, incident objectives are established and strategies are selected in Area Command
What is the Area Commander?
The NIMS component that consists of processes, procedures and tools encompassing communication.
What is the Joint Information System?
Multiagency Coordination groups (MAC groups) are frequently defined by this description when an emergency crosses jurisdictional boundaries.
What is geographically?
Responsibility that outlines a primary function of area command.
What is coordination of development of incident objectives and strategies for each incident?
The act of directing, ordering, or controlling by virtue of explicit statutory, regulatory or delegated authority.
What is Command?
Definition: Exchange of information to carry out specific incident management responsibilities
What is coordination?
Location where staff from multiple agencies come together to provide coordinated support to on-scene personnel.
What is the Emergency Operations Center?
The organization that deals with competition among multiple users based on the complexity of the incident.
What is Area Command?
3 critical responsibilities of the Area Commander:
1. Assessing incidents
2. Allocating resources.
3. ???????
What is establishing priorities?
4 NIMS Functional Groups:
1. ICS
2. EOC
3. JIS
4. ???
What are Multiagency coordination groups (MAC Groups)?
What term describes the architecture which includes: tactical coordination (ICS)
operational support coordination (EOCs)
policy level coordination (MAC Group) &
coordinated information (JIS)
What is Command and Coordination?
Representatives from stakeholder agencies to make multiagency decisions.
What is the MAC Group?
A ____________ may establish a MAC Group as part of its EOC function.
What is single jurisdiction?
Scenario where Area Command should be established.
Several active incidents in close proximity and using similar/limited critical resources.
NIMS Functional group that integrates incident information and public affairs before, during and after incidents.
What are Joint Information Systems (JIS)
Establishing incident management policies and priorities is one of their roles.
What is the MAC Group?
What ICS structure is created by more than one agency involved in the incident.
What is Unified Command?
Multijurisdictional efforts of more than one agency are often referred to as
How does the use of Area Command facilitate the job of the IC and agency officials.
Coordination between incidents typically done by the IC is accomplished at the Area Command level.
What activation should be considered when multiple incidents are using limited and similar resources.
What is Area Command?
The NIMS component Command and Coordination encompasses 4 functional groups.
1. ICS
2. EOC
3. MAC
4. JIS
Collecting and analyzing information, sharing information and supporting resource needs and requests.
What is a function of EOC Coordination?