Purdue University’s Integrated Emergency Management Plan (IEMP) uses a management system widely known as the Incident Command System (ICS). The ICS provides an organizational structure capable of ...

An effectively implemented incident command system saves lives by promoting firefighter accountability and controlling activity. Incident command is the fundamental building block of a much larger ...

Suchi Rudra is a writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, BBC and Vice, among other publications. Emergency situations are simply a part of life, but schools now have a wider range of ...

The nation's first responders now can take two new incident command system (ICS) review courses online through the National Emergency Training Center (NETC) Virtual Campus. The new, scenario-based ...

(TNS) - This year on the Gila National Forest, in New Mexico, there have been 55 wildfires — nine of which were human caused and the rest because of lightning. Based on the Forest’s Fire Management ...

All State of California employees are considered “disaster service workers” and may be called on to provide assistance if a disaster occurs. Since the SEMS/ICS system will be used by first responders ...

Comprehensive news coverage of the deadly mass shooting in Maine included reports on the hundreds of law enforcement officers who joined the hunt for the gunman. These officers represented local, ...

I am absolutely positive that everyone will not agree with what I’ve written below. Perhaps it will provoke some discussion on the topic where you live and work. I have noted that where I live, some ...

On an upper floor of the San Diego Convention Center, above huge halls where several hundred people have been sheltering nightly during the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a nerve center. Staff members ...

BUTUAN CITY – Of the three participating countries namely Vietnam, Malaysia, and the Philippines, the latter was recognized to be advanced in its implementation of the Incident Command System (ICS) ...

Ed Krell operates FEMA's Incident Response Vehicle (IRV) set up at the base of Lake LaMoure spillway during North Dakota flooding on March 24, 2010. (Michael Rieger/FEMA) The Department of Homeland ...