ICS 400 study guide Flashcards
What type of structure is established over several individual incidents?
Incident Complex
In the context of incident management, complex incidents generally:
involve multijurisdictional efforts of more than one agency.
_______is an organization that oversees the management of multiple incidents
Area Command
How does the use of Area Command facilitate the job of the incident Commander and agency officials?
Area command communicates agency policies, priorities, constraints, and guidance to the Incident Commanders implementation across incidents.
What is an advantage of activating an Area Command
Resolves the resource competition between incidents
When should an Area Command be established?
When incidents are using similar and limited critical resources.
Which responsibility outlines an Area Commands Primary function?
Develop broad objectives for the affected areas.
Assessing incidents and allocating resources are two of the three most critical responsibilities of the Area Commander. What is third?
Establishing resource priorities.
What is the delegated authority that directs the use of agency resources?
Command
What term is a NIMS guiding principle that states everyone in incident management reports to and takes direction from only one person?
Unity of Command
MAC Groups are frequently defined ________, especially when an emergency crosses jurisdictional boundaries
geographically
Mac groups may be established by a/an ________ as part of its emergency operations center function.
single jurisdiction
The command and coordination component of NIMS included four NIMS functional Groups: Incident Command System, Emergency Operations Centers, and Joint Information Systems. What is the fourth
MAC Groups
What NIMS functional group integrates incident information and public affairs into a cohesive organization to provide coordinated and complete information before, during and after incidents?
Joint Information Systems
Of the agencies listed, what decision making agency may provide multi agency coordination?
- Department of Ops Center
- National Operations Center
- Dispatch Centers
- Crisis action teams
Crisis action teams
From the list below, what location is responsible for collecting, analyzing, and sharing incident information?
- Joint Field Office
- Joint Information Center
- Joint Operations Center
- Emergency Operations Center
Emergency Operations Center
Emergency operations Centers (EOC’s) provide coordinated support to on-scene personnel, other EOC’s and _______.
Incident Command
Why are MAC Groups established and organized?
To make policy-level decisions during incidents.
What are complex incidents?
incidents that involve multijurisdictional and/or multidisciplinary efforts of more than one agency and/or political jurisdiction. Incidents that draw national media attention, span multiple operational periods, include widespread damage to property, environment and economy
What is an incident complex?
an organizational structure that exists when two or more individual incidents located in the same general area are assigned to a single IC or UC. (JUST A STRUCTURE)
Area Command Definition.
An area command is activated to address competition for resources among multiple ICP’s based on the complexity of the incident and incident management span of control considerations.
Area command primary functions
- Develop broad objectives, Coordinate development of incident objectives and strategies for each incident
- Allocate or reallocate resources as priorities change.
- Ensure effective comms and data coordination.
Benefits of area command
- Allows the incident commanders to focus their attention on their incident objectives strategies and tactics.
- can assist in maintaining shared situational awareness between incidents, supporting EOC’s and the Mac Group.
four components of NIMS and MAC-S
ICS, EOC’s, MAC groups and Join info systems (JIS)
