The Incident Command System: A Tool for Business Recovery

Topics:
Contingency Planning
Tags:
DISASTER-RESOURCE.com,
Fire,
Productivity,
Recovery,
Tool
Source:
DISASTER-RESOURCE.com

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Overview: Article discusses that in a recent fire that threatened a large Southern California company, a company official, who had been trained in ICS and understood how to size requirements, was able to provide the local fire department with the information required to dispatch the exact number of resources needed to effectively respond to the fire. No more and no less. This allowed the fire department to optimize their resources to match the incident and save the company from possible destruction. Article mentions that the modern Incident Command System utilizes a proven structure and descriptive terminology base that is comprehensive and powerful while not being difficult to understand. Read and know more about ICS history and ICS organization.

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Format: HTML | Date: Jan 2003 | Pages: 1


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