Incident Command Systems

Question 1

According to SOP 204.4, safety (incident scene safety), command will limit the number of personnel on the incident scene to those assigned to a task or function. All personnel will either:

Answer 1

Be positioned in base, be assigned to a task, a group, or a division, be available for immediate re-assignment, be assigned to rehabilitation, be released to in-service status.

Question 2

According to SOPO 201.1 Incident Command, the officer assuming command shall transmit (when necessary) brief initial report to include:___?

Answer 2

Company or officer transiting report, correct address or location, conditions, name of command.

Question 3

According to SOP 201.3 Staging, when staging has been established, the staging area manager shall:___?

Answer 3

Log in and out all resources

Question 4

According to SOP 201.4 Command Procedures (safety officer), the safety officer shall:___?

Answer 4

Monitor conditions and operations for safety, have the authority to bypass the chain of command to immediately correct unsafe acts or conditions presenting an imminent threat to personnel, upon recognition of other under conditions, recommend corrective actions to command and appropriate personnel.

Question 5

According to SOP 201.09 Command Procedures (benchmarks), command shall ensure the following benchmarks are communicated to dispatch upon completion: All clear, all clear secondary, incident (or fire) under control, loss stopped. T/F?

Answer 5

True

Question 6

In ICS, an individual assigned to oversee a branch will assume the title of:

Answer 6

Director

Question 7

In ICS, and individual assigned to oversee a division or group will assume the title of:

Answer 7

Supervisor

Question 8

In ICS, the members of the Command Staff assume the title of:

Answer 8

Officer

Question 9

In addition to establishing the Division Designation, specific boundaries must be defined. This is particularly important in what type of incident?

Answer 9

Non-structure incidents.

Question 10

In addition to transmitting a brief initial report, the officer assuming command shall:

Answer 10

Perform size-up, establish incident objectives, determine strategies, determine tactics, and implement action plan.

Question 11

in radio communications with a division:

Answer 11

The letter or number designation follows “Division” (e.g. “division 6) unless a descriptive designation is used, in which case the descriptor will precede “division” (e.g. Interior Division).

Question 12

The four General Staff positions in ICS are?

Answer 12

Operations, logistics, planning, finance

Question 13

Transfer of command shall include communication of the following information:

Answer 13

Status of current situation, resources committed to the incident, and responding as well as the present organizational structure, assessment of the current effect of tactical operations.

Question 14

Unified command means each agency or jurisdiction established Incident Command over their area of managerial responsibility (e.g. “Fire Command”, “Medical”) T/F?

Answer 14

False

Question 15

When Base has been established, the Base Area Manager shall report to:

Answer 15

Logistics or Command

Question 16

When a company officer is assigned as a division or group supervisor, what must the company officer do regardless of how his crew members are assigned/reassigned?

Answer 16

Advise command or operations of the change in company status

Question 17

When a company officer is assigned as a division or group supervisor, what are the options for what he can do with his crew members?

Answer 17

Keep on or more members assigned to him for assistance, reassign one or more members to another company, or remove himself from the company and allow the other members to continue to operate as a company with one less person.

Question 18

5 resources of the same kind?

Answer 18

Strike team

Question 19

Any combination of resources of different types is called?

Answer 19

Task force

Question 20

What is not a good reason for establishing branches in the ICS structure?

Answer 20

The incident commander wants to isolate individual agencies that don’t cooperate well with others.

Question 21

Groups have the responsibility to coordinate with and notify who?

Answer 21

Division Supervisor in who’s area they are working.