BOISE, Idaho--The National Wildfire Coordination Group and the U.S. Fire Administration have jointly developed and implemented a new online course that will enable firefighters, incident responders ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON - The National Incident Management System (NIMS) Integration Center has developed guidelines for Incident Command System (ICS) training providers that will help them ensure that the ...

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 ...

After the devastating attack on the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, Arlington County (Virginia) found itself a key player in a complex, first responder crisis. During its initial response to the Pentagon ...

How are you going to organize the place where you coordinate and/or command from when responding to a disaster? Most organizations, public and private have struggled with this question. For those in ...

In a Journal of Emergency Management article titled The evolution of shortcomings in Incident Command System: Revisions have allowed critical management functions to atrophy, researchers Kimberly ...