The safety of all personnel involved in an incident or a planned event is the first duty of ICS leadership. This is the overall responsibility of Team Leaders, Group or Division Supervisors, Branch Directors, Sections Chiefs, and all members of the Command or Unified Command staff.

When receiving equipment, you should examine and inventory each item to make sure it is all in your possession and in working order. 7. FEMA’s policy of nondiscrimination can be summarized as providing all disaster survivors with the same amount of financial assistance.

C: Basic Incident Command System for Initial Response Answers. IS200, Basic Incident Command System for Initial Response, reviews the Incident Command System (ICS), provides the context for ICS within the initial response and supports higher level ICS training.

Exercise Plan is NOT a tool that you would need at the incident (because an incident is not an exercise – it’s for real).

Field-level briefings are delivered to individual resources or crews who are assigned to operational tasks and/or work at or near the incident site. Section-level briefings are delivered to an entire Section and include the Operational Period Briefing.

Explanation: The operations period briefing is the shift briefing that is conducted at the beginning of every operation period in order to present the incident action plan to tactical resource supervisor.

Q. When a more qualified person arrives on scene, which statement best describes what happens? The more qualified person automatically becomes the new Incident Commander and assumes command. The outgoing Incident Commander demobilizes to avoid confusion.