BOISE, Idaho--The National Wildfire Coordination Group and the U.S. Fire Administration have jointly developed and implemented a new online course that will enable firefighters, incident responders ...

Tens of thousands of people have taken the online basic Incident Command System (ICS) training. How much of that do they really retain over time? It all becomes very real when someone is told they are ...

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 ...

The nation's first responders now can take two new incident command system (ICS) review courses online through the National Emergency Training Center (NETC) Virtual Campus. The new, scenario-based ...

I am absolutely positive that everyone will not agree with what I’ve written below. Perhaps it will provoke some discussion on the topic where you live and work. I have noted that where I live, some ...

The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC) has acknowledged this necessity, leading to top ...

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 ...

The Incident Command System, or ICS, is a management system that supports effective and efficient incident management by integrating a combination of facilities equipment, personnel, procedures and ...

After the devastating attack on the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, Arlington County (Virginia) found itself a key player in a complex, first responder crisis. During its initial response to the Pentagon ...