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ICS. ICS is a key feature of what national system? - answer National Incident management System (NIMS)
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What are the requirements to use ICS? - answer -NIMS requires the use of ICS for all domestic responses.
-NIMS also requires that all levels of government, including Territories and Tribal Organizations, adopt ICS as a condition of receiving Federal Funds.
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What is the ICS? - answer ICS is a "standardized,"
"On-scene,"
"All Hazards,"
incident management concept
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Is ICS hindered by jurisdictional boundaries? - answer No, ICS allows its users to adopt an integrated organizational structure to match the complexities and demands of single or multiple incidents without being hindered by jurisdictional boundaries.
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ICS has considerable internal flexibility. It can grow and shrink to meet different needs. This flexibility makes it a very cost effective and efficient management approach for what size situations? - answer for both small and large situations.
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The ICS was developed in the 1970's following what occurrence? - answer a series of catastrophic fires in California's urban interface.
ICS regarding the catastrophic urban fires in California that sparked ICS' creation, the personnel assigned to determine the cause of the disaster found that response systems
could rarely be attributed to a lack of resources or failure of tactics. What lesson did they learn? - answer They learned response problems were far more likely to result from inadequate management rather than from any single reason.
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Once studies learned disaster responses were likely the result of inadequate management, the weaknesses in management were often due to what? - answer -
lack of accountability and weak chains of command.
-poor communication, conflicting codes/terminology.
-lack of an orderly, systematic planning process.
-no common, flexible, predesigned management structure.
-no predefined methods
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How and when did the National Incident management System (NIMS) come to be? - answer In response to 9/11, President Bush issued Home land Security Directive 5 (HSPD-5) in February 2003. The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security announced the establishment of
NIMS in March 2004.
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One key feature of NIMS is what? - answer ICS
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ICS is built on what proven practices? - answer ICS is built on proven management systems based on successful business practices, the result of decades of lessons learned in the organization and management of emergency incidents'.
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Designers of the system recognized early that ICS must be interdisciplinary and organizationally flexible to meet the following management chalenges: - answer -
meet the needs of any kind or size incident.
-allow personnel of multiple agencies to meld rapidly
-provide logistical and admin support
-be cost effective without duplicating efforts.
ICS
ICS. ICS is a key feature of what national system? - answer National Incident management System (NIMS)
ICS
What are the requirements to use ICS? - answer -NIMS requires the use of ICS for all domestic responses.
-NIMS also requires that all levels of government, including Territories and Tribal Organizations, adopt ICS as a condition of receiving Federal Funds.
ICS
What is the ICS? - answer ICS is a "standardized,"
"On-scene,"
"All Hazards,"
incident management concept
ICS
Is ICS hindered by jurisdictional boundaries? - answer No, ICS allows its users to adopt an integrated organizational structure to match the complexities and demands of single or multiple incidents without being hindered by jurisdictional boundaries.
ICS
ICS has considerable internal flexibility. It can grow and shrink to meet different needs. This flexibility makes it a very cost effective and efficient management approach for what size situations? - answer for both small and large situations.
ICS
The ICS was developed in the 1970's following what occurrence? - answer a series of catastrophic fires in California's urban interface.
ICS regarding the catastrophic urban fires in California that sparked ICS' creation, the personnel assigned to determine the cause of the disaster found that response systems
could rarely be attributed to a lack of resources or failure of tactics. What lesson did they learn? - answer They learned response problems were far more likely to result from inadequate management rather than from any single reason.
ICS
Once studies learned disaster responses were likely the result of inadequate management, the weaknesses in management were often due to what? - answer -
lack of accountability and weak chains of command.
-poor communication, conflicting codes/terminology.
-lack of an orderly, systematic planning process.
-no common, flexible, predesigned management structure.
-no predefined methods
ICS
How and when did the National Incident management System (NIMS) come to be? - answer In response to 9/11, President Bush issued Home land Security Directive 5 (HSPD-5) in February 2003. The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security announced the establishment of
NIMS in March 2004.
ICS
One key feature of NIMS is what? - answer ICS
ICS
ICS is built on what proven practices? - answer ICS is built on proven management systems based on successful business practices, the result of decades of lessons learned in the organization and management of emergency incidents'.
ICS
Designers of the system recognized early that ICS must be interdisciplinary and organizationally flexible to meet the following management chalenges: - answer -
meet the needs of any kind or size incident.
-allow personnel of multiple agencies to meld rapidly
-provide logistical and admin support
-be cost effective without duplicating efforts.
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