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Question 1

IMS is ____________ and will work for incidents ranging from very small to large scale, and everything in between.

Answer 1

Scalable

Question 2

What is one thing that all IMS’s have in common?

Answer 2

That one person is in command of the entire incident

Question 3

Span of Control typically involves supervising how many people? TQ

Answer 3

3 to 7 (with 5 being the rule of thumb)

Question 4

When should an IMS be used so that safety, accountability, and operations can be controlled efficiently?

Answer 4

On all incidents that involve more than just a single unit

Question 5

What standard discusses the IMS requirements? TQ

Answer 5

NFPA 1561, Standard on Emergency Services Incident Management System

Question 6

As far as IMS’s go, the current focus is the _____________________________.

Answer 6

National Incident Management System (NIMS)

Question 7

Since what events, has there been a national effort for all agencies to adopt NIMS.

Answer 7

Terrorism events of 2001

Question 8

The use of a single _____________ is a must for the operation to be effective and efficient.

Answer 8

Incident Commander (IC)

Question 9

First and foremost, the IC must control the _____________.

Answer 9

Incident

Question 10

Standard operating guidelines mandate the use of _____________ for radio communications for all types of incidents, thereby reducing, or eliminating the confusion created by using radio codes.

Answer 10

Plain English

Question 11

____________ refer to the combination of personnel and equipment used in tactical incident operations.

Answer 11

Resources

Question 12

In the IMS, the first management assignments by the initial attack IC will normally be one or more ____________ to manage the major functional areas.

Answer 12

Sectional Chiefs

Question 13

The fireground Command system became popular when? Where was it Develped? TQ

Answer 13

The late 1970’s and Phoenix Fire Department

Question 14

What publication or book helped the Fireground Command system gain national attention? And who wrote it? TQ

Answer 14

Fire Command written by Chief Alan Brunacini

Question 15

What are the 3 basic levels utilized by fireground command?

Answer 15

Stratgic, Tactical, Task

Question 16

The fireground command system used the term __________ to identify and define locations or activities using plain language.

Answer 16

Sector

Question 17

When was IMS transitioned into a national program called the National Interagency Incident Management System (NIIMS)?

Answer 17

1980

Question 18

What are the 5 major sub-systems that collectively provided a total systems approach to incident management?

Answer 18

ICS, Training, Qualifications & certification, Publications, Support.

Question 19

The basic organizational structure of the IMS was based on experiences of what?

Answer 19

Large wildland fires

Question 20

What system replaced NIIMS?

Answer 20

NIMS (National Incident Management System

Question 21

NIMS is a requirement for jurisdictions seeking what? TQ

Answer 21

Federal grant money

Question 22

What standard mandates the use of an IMS?

Answer 22

NFPA 1561

Question 23

The DHS released NIMS when? TQ

Answer 23

March, 2004

Question 24

The _______________________ was established by the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide Strategic direction for, and oversight of, NIMS. TQ

Answer 24

NIMS Integration Center

Question 25

What are the 5 manageable functions that are essential for emergency response operations?

Answer 25

command, operations, planning, logistics, finance and administration

Question 26

What does NIMS recognize as a model for course curricula and materials?

Answer 26

National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) ICS

Question 27

Span of control of any individual is for how many people?

Answer 27

3 to 7 (with 5 being the rule of thumb)

Question 28

Who is responsible for all activities of the overall incident?

Answer 28

IC

Question 29

__________ is the IMS designation for the organizational level that has a primary responsibility for one of the general staff functions or one of the command staff functions. TQ

Answer 29

Section

Question 30

_______________ is the position responsible for the management of all tactical objectives and activities.

Answer 30

Operations

Question 31

What section is responsible for many areas, beginning with the development of action plans?

Answer 31

Planning

Question 32

What sections is responsible for all nonoperational support needs and activities, including facilities, transportation, supplies, fuel, etc.?

Answer 32

Logistics

Question 33

What section is used on large or long duration incidents, and is responsible for analyzing incident costs, tracking the time of equipment and personnel.

Answer 33

Finance/Administration

Question 34

Support positions for the main sections are then assisted as they are further broken down into what?

Answer 34

Branches, divisions, and groups

Question 35

What is a Branch?

Answer 35

Formed when the manageable span of control of the number of divisions and or groups is exceeded

Question 36

What is a Division?

Answer 36

A division is established and named by geographic areas such has 3rd floor of a structure may be termed “Division 3”.

Question 37

What is a Group? TQ

Answer 37

These are named by a specific function that they are to accomplish, such as search group.

Question 38

A ___________ is a combination of unlike resources, typically totaling 5 resources.

Answer 38

Task Force

Question 39

A ____________ is a combination of 5 like resources.

Answer 39

Strike Team

Question 40

What limits and corrects competition between agencies and free lancing?

Answer 40

Unified Command

Question 41

What are the foundation of an IMS?

Answer 41

SOGs

Question 42

The IC should, at a minimum, announce what two things?

Answer 42

Who is taking command, location of command post

Question 43

The purpose of any command system is to provide ___, ____, and ____ of risk management.

Answer 43

Structure, coordination and integration