NIMS & ICS Basics
ICS, EOCs, MAC groups, and Joint Information System (JIS) make up this NIMS component.
What is Command and Coordination?
This person delegates authority to the Incident Commander(s).
Who is the Agency Admin/Exec/Senior Official?
During a multi-jurisdictional incident, these people may be in Unified Command.
Who are the representatives of the different jurisdictions involved?
What is the Incident Action Planning Process?
These things should be considered during Cost-Benefit Analysis for tactics and resources.
Benefits of Alternatives, Time Variables, Estimated Cost, and Safety Factors
This ICS principle describes an orderly line of authority, often established through Unity of Command, that defines relationships between ranks in an organization.
What is Chain of Command?
When arriving at the incident, the first thing this person should do is get a briefing from the outgoing IC and fill out the ICS 201 form.
Who is the incoming IC?
Unified Command, though made of multiple members, only produces one set of objectives and one of this document for the operational period.
What is an IAP?
This final meeting presents the IAP to tactical supervisors.
What is the Ops Briefing?
When planning for incidents, personnel should consult agency policies and guidelines like these.
What are SOPs, Continuity of Operations Plans, EOPs, etc.
Modular expansion
Who is the Logistics Section Chief?
Objectives guide the strategies. These specify how the strategies will be carried out.
What are tactics?
These questions are answered by the After-Action Review/Report.
What did we set out to do? What happened? Why did it happen?
This form analyzes how dangerous proposed tactics are, and can identify when a safer alternative tactic may be needed.
What is the 215A?
This stage of the Incident Resource Management Process sends resources home in an orderly, safe, and efficient manner, AND rehabilitates and replenishes them when they are dismissed.
What is demobilization?
This Command Staff member coordinates with assisting agencies, including identifying policies and agreements for releasing borrowed resources.
Who is the Liaison Officer?
This resource contains ICS-qualified personnel who can fill out ICS positions when needed.
What is an Incident Management Team?
This meeting's purpose is to validate the operational plan.
What is the Planning Meeting?
This IAP form sums up incident objectives and command priorities.
What is ICS 202?
During a rapidly expanding incident, these may be incomplete.
What are communications and information?
This section is responsible for creating the Demobilization Plan.
What is the Planning Section?
The IMT may consider this, in addition to demobilizing excess resources, when the incident stabilizes or de-escalates.
What is transfer of command?
This meeting reviews the OSC's proposed strategies and tactics.
What is the tactics meeting?
You should evaluate your resources, including personnel, at this point in the incident.
What is ongoing/throughout the incident?