CERT Six A: CERT organization:

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My last few blogs have been quite lengthy and I type all the notes of the class. I think I’ll start posting it in more manageable word counts.

ICS: (incident command system) is the same organization that is used by all emergency organizations ranging from Red Cross to FEMA. It originated from an organization called fire scope that was created in California after the problematic events of a huge fire that covered several counties and the lack of organization confronting those fires.

Three goals

  1. maintain safety
  2. provide clear leadership
  3. improve effectiveness

ICS main functions:

  1. provide orderly transfer of command
  2. recognize chain of command
  3. Reports only one person, one level up through the chain of command.
  4. Unified command – common commands.
  5. Manageable span of control
  6. Modular expandable organization. A command center may start small but will expand as needed room is needed for additional functions. People do not do tasks and tell specifically assigned.
  7. Managed by objectives
  8. Incident action plan. Must be written and prioritized by most effective
  9. Comprehensive resource management. Each object of resource from people to generators had their individual resource number.
  10. Designated facilities – where commands post
  11. Common terminology – use plain language.
  12. Integrated communication
  13. info and intelligence management
  14. accountable – such as check-in, checkout, reports, the only your job and not someone else’s

The three D’s of disaster:

  • Define scope of incident. Is help coming soon only be days Russian Mark
  • Determine overall strategy. What to do how to do it?
  • Deploy resources where needed the most.
  • Document actions and results. Do it as you go, people don’t remember what’s been done in the past. You remember better if a message is written down. You also need this documentation to report to professionals when they arrive.

(More this class will be coming next week)

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