ICS 210/300 – Flashcards
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What is the Incident Briefing form #? Who fills it out?
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201, initial Incident Commander
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What is the Incident Objectives form #? Who fills it out?
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202, planning section chief
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What is the Organization Assignment List # and Who prepares it?
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203, Resources Unit Leader
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What is the Incident Organization Chart # and who prepares it?
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207, Resources Unit Leader
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What is the general message form #?
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213
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What is the T-Card form # and who fills it out?
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219, Resource Unit Leader
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What is the Check-in List form # and who fills it out?
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211, Resource Unit Leader
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What is the Base?
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The location at which the primary logistics functions are coordinated and administered.
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What does the base contain?
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Supplies
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How many bases per incident?
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1
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What is the Branch?
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the organizational level having functional and / or geographic responsibility for major incident operations.
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Where are branches located in the chart?
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Between Section and Division/Group in OPS and between Section and Units in Logistics.
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What is a Camp?
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Site within the genereal incident area, separate from the incident base, provides sleeping, food, water and sanitary services to personnel.
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What is a Division? and when is it established?
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used to divide an incident into geographical areas of pers. It is established when the number of resources exceeds the span of control of the OSC.
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What is a Group?
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established to divide the incident into functional areas of ops. Perfrom a specific function. (FG)
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What are Overhead Personnel?
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those assigned to supervisory positions such as Incident Commander, Command Staff, General Staff, Directors, Supervisors and Unit Leaders.
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What is a Strike Team?
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Specified combinations of the same kind and type of resources with common comms and a leader.
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What is a Task Force?
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A group of mixed resources for a specific mission.
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When is a unified command used?
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When there is more than one agency with incident jurisdiction.
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When & where did NIMS begin?
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1970s by Firefighters
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When did CG begin using NIMS in a limited use?
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1988-1997
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When did the CG adopt NIMS nationwide?
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1998
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When and what required all Federal agencies to use NIMS?
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2003 by HSPD-5
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What does HSPD-5 stand for?
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Homeland Security Presidential Directive 5
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What does NIMS stand for?
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Natl. Incident Management System
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What is the mnemonic for the elements that an effective ICS must have?
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I Dated: Interagency ties, Doctrine, Agency support, Training & Exercise, Evaluation and Documentation
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What are the 5 primary ICS functions
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Command & Command Staff. Surrounded by (FLOP) Finance, Logistics, Operations & Planning
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Who is represented in the Unified Command Triangle?
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Feds, State & Responsible (Representative) Party
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Transfer of Command should be and applies to?
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Smooth, Overlapping, Communicated (SOC) Single command and Unified Command
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AOR:
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Area of Responsibility
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What is the maximum span of control?
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1-7
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What is the optimal span of control?
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3-5
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Who is in the command staff?
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Incident Commander, PIO, Liaison Ofcr., Safety Ofcr., Other
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Who is the general staff?
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Finance, Logistics, OPS & Planning Chiefs.
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Who helps the General Staff Chiefs?
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Deputies, Ex. Deputy Oper Section Chief
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Who helps the Command Staff of Officers?
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Assistants, Ex. Assistant Liaison Officer
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Where does the info. come from to fill out the T-Cards (219)?
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Form 211
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What is the unit log form #?
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Form 214
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What is the demob form #?
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Form 221
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What is the Comms form #?
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Form 205
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What are the two types of comms?
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Formal and Informal
