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 ...

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 ...

How Does Your Incident Command System Benefit Your Department? Does your department use the traditional whiteboard and checklist as part of your incident command, or do you use a digital incident ...

The National Incident Management System (NIMS) established by FEMA in 2004 includes the utilization of a standardized approach to managing critical incidents through the use of the Incident Command ...

In the American fire service, there are two distinct types of deployment procedures at structural fires. The first type is incident command-directed deployment procedures; the second is predetermined ...