NIMS
When was NIMS initiated?
2004
How many EOC activation levels are there?
Normal Operations/ Steady State, Enhanced Steady-State/ Partial Activation, Full Activation
Mutual aid agreements does what?
Establish the legal basis for two or more entities to share resources.
Who is responsible for the overall management of the incident?
Incident Commander
What is a “Type”?
A resource’s level of minimum capability to perform its function
What year was the revised NIMS?
2008
When was the structure of EOC’s introduced in the NIMS document?
2017
Can mutual aid services be unpaid?
Yes
What consists of the Operations, Planning, Logistics, and Finance/Administration
Section Chiefs?
General Staff
What is self-dispatching or self-deploying?
Responders coming to an incident area without being requested.
What organizational incident management efforts was NIMS modeled after?
FIRESCOPE
What are three common ways of organizing EOC teams?
ICS or ICS like structure, Incident Support Model, Departmental Structure
What is another name for a Mutual Aid Agreement?
Mutual Aid Compact
What improves unity of effort in multijurisdictional or multiagency incident?
Unified Command
Resource management preparedness involves what?
Identifying and typing resources; qualifying, certifying, and credentialing personnel; planning for resources; and acquiring, storing, and inventorying resources.
What does double I NIMS stand for?
National Interagency Incident Management System
(NIIMS)
What type of EOC Organization puts the EOC director in direct contact with those doing situational awareness/information management and streamlines resource sourcing, ordering, and tracking?
Incident Support Model (ISM) Structure
What is EMAC?
A congressionally ratified mutual aid compact that defines a non-Federal, state-to-state system for sharing resources across state lines during an emergency or disaster.
What section develops and implements strategies and tactics to achieve incident objectives?
Operations Section
Does NQS use a training base or performance base approach?
Performance Base Approach
Incident management priorities include what?
Saving lives, stabilizing the incident, and protecting
property and the environment.
What is the NIMS management characteristic of that indicates that leaders are responsible for the functions of subordinate positions that are not staffed?
Modular Organization
Managers of an organization should consider what before responding to a request for mutual aid?
Whether the department could still meet its community’s needs after deploying requested equipment and personnel to another jurisdiction.
What is a statement that the authorizes jurisdiction/organization officials to make such delegations to the Incident Commander?
Delegation of Authority
The resource management process during an incident includes what?
Standard methods to identify, order, mobilize, and track resources.