NIMS Know-How
This is what NIMS stands for
National Incident Management System
An Incident PIO is a position under the Incident Commander's _________ staff.
What is Command
In NIMS, resource inventorying refers to preparedness activities conducted ______ (of) incident response.
What is outside
I am the one position which every incident will have, and has overall responsibility for managing the on-scene incident.
What/Who is Incident Commander
Incident objectives that drive incident operations established by _________.
Who is the Incident Commander or Unified Command?
Depending on the incident size and complexity, various types of support facilities may be established by __________.
Incident Command
This NIMS component includes the Incident Command System (ICS)
Command and Coordination
This NIMS characteristic helps ensure efficient, clear, communication.
What is Common Terminology?
This NIMS Management Characteristic includes maintaining accurate and up-to-date inventories of personnel, equipment, teams, and supplies
What is Comprehensive Resource Management
An Incident Commander's scope of authority is derived from existing laws, agency policies, and/or _______.
What is Delegation of Authority
These enhance situational awareness and ensure that personnel can access needed information.
This is the field location at which the primary tactical-level on-scene incident command functions are performed.
What is Incident Command Post (ICP)?
These are the three NIMS guiding principles.
What are Flexibility, Standardization, and Unity of Effort?
This NIMS structure develops, recommends, and executes public information plans and strategies.
What is Joint Information System (JIS)?
This Resource Management task determines the type, quantity, receiving location, and users of resources.
What is Identify Requirements
We are the ones who make the determination as to who serves as the Incident Commander (by policy, ordinance, delegation of authority, etc.)
Who is the jurisdiction or organization with primary responsibility for the incident?
This NIMS Management characteristic includes documents that record and communicate incident objectives, tactics, and assignments for operations and support.
What is Incident Action Planning
The location at which primary logistics functions for an incident are coordinated and administered. There is only one per incident.
What is Incident Base?
This is the number of NIMS Management Characteristics... and also Pete Rose.
What is 14?
This is a central location that houses Joint Information System (JIS) operations and where public information staff perform public affairs functions.
What is Joint Information Center (JIC)
This Resource Management task enables resource coordination throughout the incident
What is Track and Report
This group reports to the Incident Commander and provides public information, safety, and liaison services.
Who are the Command Staff?
I am a part of the Incident Commander's General staff, responsible for ensuring assigned incident personnel are fed, have communications, medical support, and transportation as needed to meet the operational objectives.
Who/What is Logistics Section Chief
This facility helps coordinate plans, determine and priorities resource needs, share information, and provide policy direction.
What is an Emergency Operations Center?
The NIMS Management Characteristic of the Check-In / Check-Out of incident personnel helps to ensure this.
What is accountability?
The need for this can complicate information sharing among emergency personnel.
What is confidentiality
This task establishes and maintains the readiness of resources and ensure providers are pain in a timely manner
What is Reimburse and Restock
This type of Command is used when partners representing multiple jurisdictions or agencies work together to establish the incident objectives.
What is Unified Command?
The Incident Action Plan is prepared by General Staff from this section.
What is the Planning Section?
This facility is used to temporarily position and account for personnel, supplies, and equipment awaiting assignment.
What is Staging Area?
This NIMS Management Characteristic is necessary for achieving situational awareness and facilitating information sharing.
What is Integrated Communications?
Interoperable Communications planning falls under this ICS Section.
What is Logistics?
Establishing mutual aid agreements to obtain resources from neighboring localities/agencies is an example of this resource management activity
Planning for Resources
Each ICS General Staff is led by a ______ who reports directly to the Incident Commander or Unified Command.
What is Section Chief?
This is conducted in order to predict the resource needs of an incident to determine the appropriate management structure.
What is a
A geographical site, within the general incident area, separate from the incident area, equipped and staffed to provide sleeping, food, water, and sanitary services to incident personnel.
What is Camp?