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2. National Incident Management System - Wikipedia

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   The National Incident Management System (NIMS) is a standardized approach to incident management developed by the United States Department of Homeland Security.The program was established in March 2004, [1] in response to Homeland Security Presidential Directive-5, [1] [2] issued by President George W. Bush.

3. Incident Command System - Wikipedia

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   Emergency operations center (EOC): An emergency operations center is a central command and control facility responsible for carrying out the principles of emergency preparedness and emergency management, or disaster management functions at a strategic level during an emergency, and ensuring the continuity of operation of a company, political ...

4. Federal Emergency Management Agency - Wikipedia

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   As a result, FEMA became part of the Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate of Department of Homeland Security, employing more than 2,600 full-time employees. It became Federal Emergency Management Agency again on March 31, 2007, but remained in DHS. [19] President Bush appointed Michael D. Brown as FEMA's director in January 2003 ...

5. National Response Framework - Wikipedia

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   The ICS/NIMS resources of various formally defined resource types are requested, assigned and deployed as needed, then demobilized when available and incident deployment is no longer necessary. Unity of effort through unified command refers to the ICS/NIMS respect for each participating organization's chain of command with an emphasis on ...

6. Hospital incident command system (US) - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, the hospital incident command system (HICS) is an incident command system (ICS) designed for hospitals and intended for use in both emergency and non-emergency situations. It provides hospitals of all sizes with tools needed to advance their emergency preparedness and response capability—both individually and as members ...

7. Understanding FEMA’s Risk Rating 2.0 system for flood ... - AOL

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   The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) created Risk Rating 2.0 to help create more fairly rated flood insurance policies by taking more rating factors into consideration.

8. National Response Plan - Wikipedia

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   By 1996, FEMA developed a guide for individual states to develop individual Emergency Operation Plans known as the Guide for All Hazards Emergency Operations Planning. [ 6 ] The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which was formed following the September 11 attacks , absorbed FEMA when it was established in 2003.

9. Unified Command (Deepwater Horizon oil spill) - Wikipedia

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   The Unified Command provided Incident Command System/Unified Command (ICS) for coordinating response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The organization was initially headquartered at the Shell Robert Training and Conference Center [1] in Robert, Louisiana. [2]