NIMS Flashcards
1
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4 standard levels of procedural documents
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- Standard Operating Procedure or Operations Manual: Complete reference doc - provides purpose, authorities, duration, and details for the preferred method of performing a single function or a number of interrelated functions
- Field Operations Manual or Incident Management Handbook: Pocket or desk guide that contains essential information required to perform specific tasks
- Mobilization Guide: Reference doc outlining agreements, processes, and procedures used by participating org’s for activating, assembling, and transporting resources
- Job Aid: Checklist intended to ensure that specific steps for completing a task are accomplished. Also serve as training aids
2
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General Staff
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Consists of
- Operations
- Planning
- Logistics
- Finance/Administration
3
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General Staff
Operations Section
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- Operations Section Chief
- Branches
- May be functional, geographic, or both
- Used when # divisions and groups exceeds span of control
- Divisions and Groups
- Divisions - Physical or geographical areas of operations
- Groups - Functional areas of operation
- Resources
- Single resources - Individual personnel or equipment
- Task forces - Any combo of resources in support of specific mission
- Strike teams - A set # of resources of the same kind and type
4
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General staff
Planning Section
- Responsible for collecting, evaluating, and disseminating operational information pertaining to an incident
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- Resources Unit
- Records status of resources committed to incident
- Situation Unit
- Collection, organization, and analysis of incident status info
- Demobilization Unit
- Ensure orderly, safe, and efficient demobilization of resources
- Documentation Unit
- Collecting, recording, and safeguarding documents
- Technical Specialist
- Personnel w/ special skills that can be used anywhere within ICS org.
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General Staff
Logistics Section
- Provides for all the support needs for the incident, such as ordering resources and providing facilities, transportation, supplies, equipment maintenance and fuel, food service, communications, and medical services
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Support Branch
- Supply Unit
- Ground Support Unit
- Ground transportation
- Facilities Unit
Service Branch
- Food Unit
- Communications Unit
- Medical Unit
- For incident personnel
6
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General Staff
Finance / Administration Section
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- Compensation/Claims Unit
- Financial concerns resulting from propert damage, injuries, or fatalities
- Cost Unit
- Tracking costs, analyzing cost data, making estimates, and cost savings measures
- Procurement Unit
- Financial matters concerning vendor contracts
- Time Unit
- Recording time for incident personnel and hired equipment
7
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NIMS Components
a. Preparedness
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- Effective emergency management in advance of any potential incident
- Assessment; planning; procedured and protocols; training and exercises; personnel qualifications; licensure and certification; equipment certification; and evaluation and revision
8
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NIMS Components
b. Communication and Informations Management
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Based on concepts of:
- Interoperability
- Allows emerg. mgmt to communicate within and across agencies via voice, data, or video in real time
- Reliability; Scalability; Portability
- Systems designed to be flexible, reliable, and scalable for any type, regardless of cause, size, location or complexity
- Portability - Allows for integration, transport, and deployment of comm; Includes standard assign. of radio channels across jurisd.
- Scalability - Allows increase in # of users on system
- Resiliency and Redundancy
- Resiliency - Ability of comm systems to continue to perform after damage or loss of infrastructure
- Redundancy - Duplication of identical services and alternative methods of comm
9
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NIMS Components
c. Resource Management
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- Identify requirements
- Order and acquire
- Mobilize
- Track and report
- Recover and demobilize
- Reimburse
- Inventory resources
10
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NIMS Components
d. Command and Management
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- Incident Command System
- Mulitagency Coordination Systems
- Public Information
11
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NIMS Components
e. Ongoing Management and Maintenance
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- National Integration Center
- Provides strategic direction, oversiight, and coordination of NIMS and supports both routine maintenance and continuous refinement of NIMS and its components
- Supporting Technologies
- As NIMS evolve, emergency mgmt/response personnel will rely on technology and systems to implement and continuously refine NIMS
12
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Area Command
- Purpose is either oversee the management of multiple incidents that are each handled by separate ICS org’s or
- Oversee the management of a very large or evolving incident that has multiple Incident Management Teams (IMTs) engaged
- Does not have operational responsibilities
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- Develops broad objectives for impacted area
- Coordinates the development of individual incident objectives and strategies
- (Re)allocates resources
- Ensures incidents are properly managed
- Ensures effective communication
- Ensures that incident management objectives are met and do not conflict
- Identifies critical resource needs
- Ensures short-term “emergency” recovery is coordinated to transition to full recovery ops
13
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Standardized Communication Types
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- Strategic Communications - High level directions; resource priority decisions; roles and responsibilities; overall incident response course of action
- Tactical Communications - Comm between command and support elements
- Support Communications - Coordination in support of strategic and tactical comm
- Public Address Communications - Emergency alerts and warnings; press conferences
14
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5 primary phases in planning process
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- Understand the situation
- Gather, record, analyze, display
- Situational awareness of the magnitude, complexity, impact
- Ability to determine resource
- Establish incident objectives and strategy
- Develop the plan
- Determine tactical direction and resources
- Prepare and disseminate the plan
- Appropriate for level of complexity
- Execute, evaluate, and revise the plan
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Command Staff
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- Public Information Officer
- Safety Officer
- Liaison Officer
- IC’s point of contact for reps of other governmental agencies
