ICS Positions
This position is in charge of maintaining a safe work environment.
What is Safety Officer?
A disaster where abnormally large amounts of water accumulate in an area where it is not usually found.
What is a Flood?
Thad Hicks collects these unique items.
What is a cookie jar?
FEMA.
What is Federal Emergency Management Agency?
These are disasters caused by initial disasters.
What is cascading events?
This position is always staffed, and has overall responsibility and authority over the event.
What is Incident Commander?
This occurs when cold air collides with warm air which initiates a rotational flow.
What is a Tornado?
Thad Hicks works for this non-profit organization.
What is the Salvation Army?
IAP.
What is Incident Action Plan?
After an incident, a community can only return to this state.
What is New Normal?
This position addresses the media during or after an event.
What is Public Information Officer?
This is the most severe type of tropical storm.
What is a hurricane?
Thad Hicks is a reserve police officer in this city.
What is Circleville?
EOC.
What is Emergency Operations Center?
These are the four phases of Emergency Management.
What is Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery?
This position is tasked with directing all actions to meet the incident objectives.
What is Operations?
This disaster occurs when energy is released deep within the earth at the hypocenter.
What is an Earthquake?
This is the name of Thad Hicks grant writing service.
What is Brain Box?
NIMS.
What is National Incident Management System?
This event in 2001 prompted the introduction of NIMS and the true start of the Emergency Management field.
What is 9/11?
This position is responsible for providing all resources, services, and support required by the incident.
What is Logistics?
This disaster burns so intensely, that it needed its own category.
What is a Firestorm?
Thad Hicks' wife has this occupation.
What is a Teacher?
JIC.
What is a Joint Information Center?
Living, working, or being in places that can be affected by hazard impacts.
What is Hazard Exposure?