ICS 200B Flashcards
NIMS provides a ________ framework for incident management at all jurisdiction levels regardless of the cause, size or complexity
Consistent
NIMS requeires _____to be institucionalized
ICS
The five components of NIMS are:
- Command management
- Preparedness
- Resource management
- Communications and information Management
- Ongoing management and ________
Maintenance
Command and Management is broken down into 3 organizational systmes, they are:
- _____ (How operations will be handled)
- Multiagency cooordination (mutual aid agreements)
- Public information (Communication to the public)
ICS
___________: Responsable agencies manage and incident together under a Unified command.
Unified comand
Unity of command means?
each individual reports to only one supervisor.
Formal Communication follow the lines of authority. But informaytion about the incident can be passed vertically or horisontally, T/F
True
Command Staff
- PIO
- Safety
- Liason
General staff
- Operations section
- Planning section
- Logistics section
- Finance Section
As a leader you should try to:
- Take charge within your scope of authority
- be ready to step out of a tactical role and into leadesrship
- be proficient at your job
- Make sound and timely decisions
- ensure tasks are understood
- develop your ________.
subordinates
In order to mantain leadership and respect, you should:
- Know your people and look for their well being. Those who follow you are your greatest resource. Not all will succed equaly but they all deserve respect.
- Kepp subordinates and supervisor informed. Give intent and reason for the assignments.
- Build the team. ________________
Build the team. Brief and dibrief. consider experience fatigue and limitations.
- Operations section
- Branches
- Division or groups
- Strike team
- Task force
- Single resource
- Division or groups
- Branches
ICS span of conrol for any supervisor is 3 and 7 subordinates. Opimally does not exceeed five subordinates per supervisor.
Approximately 95% of all incidents are small, they include
- Incident commander and other command staff
- Single ______
resource
What are the matching support positions?
Steps for establishing objectives:
- Understand agency policy and direction
- Assess incident
- Establish objectives
- Select the apropiate strategy to achieve objectives
- perform tactical direction
- Provide necessary________
Provide necessary follow up
Initial size-up:
- Nature and magnitude of the incident
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Hazzards and safety concerns
- for responding personnel and public
- Evacuations and warnings
- Injuries and casualties
- secure the area
- Initial priorities
- Location of ICP and staging area
- Ingress and _______
egress
Overall priorities at an incident:
- Life safety
- Incident stabilization
- Property preservation
Objectives, Strategies and Tactics are the fundamentals of a succesful responce.
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Incident objectives- what will be acomplished
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Strategies to establish the general plan and direction to acomplish the objectives
- Tactics - how the strategies will be executed
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Strategies to establish the general plan and direction to acomplish the objectives
how the strategies will be executed
My own note: Strategy is overarching plan or set of goals. Changing strategies is like trying to turn around an aircraft carrier—it can be done but not quickly. Tactics are the specific actions or steps you undertake to accomplish your strategy.
the three levels of briefings are:
- Staff level briefings (none operational and support)
- Field level briefings (Resourses working on operational task)
- _____________(meetings for one of the four sections)
Section level briefings
To ensure that responders get the right personnel and equipments, ICS resources are categorized by:
- Kinds of resourses:
- Types of resources:
- Kinds of resourses: What the resourse is, Ex. Nurse, security, ambulance
- Types of resources: it describes the size, capability and qualifications of a specific kind of resource
Type five incidents are the least complex and type 1 are the most complex. It is used to:
- Make decisions about resource requirements
- Order Incident Mnagament Teams (IMT)
- Made of general staff and _________ memebers.
command staff
