NIMS Command and Coordination Structures
What NIMS Command and Coordination component leads public communications?
What is the Joint Information System.
NIMS defines this as the exchange of information to those who need certain info to carry out specific incident management responsibilities.
What is Coordination
The Command and Coordination of NIMS includes four NIMS Functional Groups: Emergency Operations Centers, Multiagency Coordination Groups, and Joint Information Systems, what is the fourth?
What is the Incident Command System
What are the characteristics of a complex incident?
What is widespread damage to property/environment/economy.
When might Area Command be used?
What are large incidents with multiple Incident Management Teams (IMTs)
The MAC Group establishes (hint: 2 things):
Incident management policies and priorities.
Where staff from multiple agencies typically come together to provide coordinated support to the on-scene personnel?
What is the EOC
To improve interagency coordination, what Incident Command System application is applied when there is more than one agency or jurisdiction over a single incident?
What is Unified Command
Options for managing a Complex Incident may include: _______, dividing, expanding planning capacity, adding a 2nd Ops or Logs section, add Intelligence/Investigation.
What is Combining
Area Commands primary function is to coordinate the development of incident:
What are objectives and strategies.
Coordinating interagency and intergovernmental issues regarding incident management policies, priorities, and strategies is the role of?
What is the MAC Group
EOC coordination functions may include: Collecting and analyzing information, and ?
What is supporting resource needs and requests.
What is the difference between Command and Coordination?
Command is the authority to direct agency resources to take specific action. (Directing and controlling)
Coordination is the process of making and implementing the decisions required to ensure policies, resources, and activities support the needs of the incident. (Coordinating resources)
What is the difference between an Incident Complex and a complex incident?
Complex Incidents - based on the complexity of the incident itself.
Incident Complex (number Incidents)
Complex Incidents are Larger incidents with higher incident complexity (normally Type 1 or Type 2 incidents) that extend into multiple operational periods and rapidly expand to multijurisdictional and/or multidisciplinary efforts necessitating outside resources and support.
Incident Complex refers to two or more individual incidents located in the same general area and assigned to a single Incident Commander or Unified Command.
What is an advantage of area command?
What is coordination between multiple incidents.
What is established to make cooperative multiagency decisions and consists of representatives from stakeholder agencies/organizations?
What is the MAC Group
The organizational level having responsibility for operations within a defined geographic area.
What is a Division
What type of activation should be considered when multiple incidents are using similar and limited resources?
What is Area Command
When several incidents are combined into a Complex incident how are they managed?
What is through Braches or Divisions
Who's responsible for resolving conflicts, establishing objectives, and resource strategies under Area Command?
Who is the Area Commander
This NIMS term covers ICS, EOCs, MAC Group and their support through JIS?
What is Command and Coordination
The organizational subdivision established to divide the incident management structure into functional areas of operation.
What is a Group
Principle that states that everyone involved in incident management reports to and takes direction from only one person?
What is Unity of Command
This org structure exists when two or more individual incidents located in the same general area are assigned to a single Incident Commander or Unified Command.
What is an Incident Complex
Using Area Command can reduce the workload of these coordinating structures/groups (hint there is 2)
What is the EOC and MAC Group