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EMC012 - Review Answers
To: | Emergency Communications Units, any place, any
where
| By: | Auxiliary Communications Service (ACS), the volunteer communications
reserve of the State of California Governor's Office of Emergency Services
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These are the answers to the Review questions in EMC011:
- Three facilities established in a major incident are:
Incident Command Post, Incident Base, Staging Area.
- Five functional areas of basic ICS structure are:
Command, Operations, Planning, Logistics, Finance
- The 8 essential ICS components are:
Common Terminology, Modular organization, Integrated
Communications, Unified Command Structure, Consolidated
Action Plans, Manageable Span-of-Control, Predesigned
Incident Facilities, Comprehensive Resource Management
- The Communications Unit leader reports to the Logistics
Section Chief
- Staging areas are locations designated by the Operations
Section Chief within the incident area which are used to
temporarily locate resources so they are available for
assignment by the Operations Chief on a 3 minute notice.
- Basic ICS structure has the Incident Command at the top,
with four sections established according to incident
needs: Operations, Planning, Logistics, and Finance.
- ICS expands from the TOP down. One person may handle
all ICS functions in a small incident.
- 3 communications plan elements: systems; frequencies and
resource use; information transfer procedures.
- 3 areas of common terminology in ICS are: Resources,
Organizational Functions, and Facilities.
- NIFQS is the certification system of NIMS.
- Five communications networks for large incident:
Command, Tactical, Support, Ground-to-Air, Air-to-Air.
- Standardized ICS management levels: Incident Commander,
Command Staff, Section Chief, Branch Director, Division
Supervisor, Unit Leader.
- Two reasons for a Unified Command system: multiple
agency involvement or multi-jurisdictional incident
- The span-of-control of any person with management
responsibility should range from 3-7, with 5 as a
general rule-of-thumb.
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