2018 BC Exam Misc Cards

Question 1

To request an FMAG (Federal Management Assistance Grant)

Answer 1

Complete the following
 (Form - 158) complete sections A-B-C
Fire perimeter map (direction of travel)
RAWS Weather
Contact the Cal OES Warning Center (you are faxing the docs above)
ICS 209

WHILE THE FIRE IS BURNING!!!!!

Question 2

In order for the Federal Management Assistance Grant (FMAG) to be met?

Answer 2

Fire burning uncontrolled? Has to be “YES” on both questions

Is the fire going to cause a major disaster?

• the fire currently or IMMEDIATELY threatening structures and/or critical infrastructure like transmission lines, airports, water treatment facilities.

Question 3

Evacuations:

What is some critical information and why?

Answer 3

Know approximately how many people evacuated. (FMAG purposes)

Where they are going (shelters, parks, stadiums)

Any shelter in place?

Question 4

What is RAWS?

Answer 4

Remote automatic weather station will (RAWS)

USES: monitor weather and provide weather data

• monitor air quality
• rating fire danger

Fire managers use this data to predict fire behavior and monitor fuels

Question 5

What is SCOUT

Answer 5

Situation Awareness Collaboration Tool

Question 6

What is SCOUTS?

Answer 6

SCOUT is a web-based command & control environment for small to large to extreme scale incidents that facilitates collaboration across Federal, Tribal, Military, State, County, & Local/Municipal levels of preparedness, planning, response, and recovery for all-risk/all-hazard events. SCOUT facilitates situational awareness for widely dispersed responders.

It is a community development project.

It will never be a done project.

FREE to first responders

Question 7

What type of information does SCOUT provide?

Answer 7

During an incident, SCOUT provides an information backbone that manages and distributes data, including real-time vehicle location feeds, weather, critical infrastructure, and terrain information.

Question 8

What does SCOUT allow amongst teams?

Answer 8

Using these tools, responders are able to quickly form teams, send messages to one another, and remotely share maps and drawings that enhance the management of the incident.

Question 9

Why have First Responders adopted this software?

Answer 9

It is web-based and technology neutral
It does not try to do everything 
It is designed for the responder under extreme stress 
It is easy to learn and use.
AVL
Aircraft Flight Following
Robust real time weather

It is free for responder organizations (all funding has been provided by the government; no vendor has proprietary rights to SCOUT; it is an open standards, community development project).