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 ...

How Does Your Incident Command System Benefit Your Department? Does your department use the traditional whiteboard and checklist as part of your incident command, or do you use a digital incident ...

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 ...

President George W. Bush visits a base camp Oct. 25, 2007, for first responders battling the Southern California wildfires. (White House photo by Eric Draper) Following the 2001 9/11 terrorist attacks ...

The National Incident Management System (NIMS) established by FEMA in 2004 includes the utilization of a standardized approach to managing critical incidents through the use of the Incident Command ...

Fireground command dates back decades, and the different styles are too many to list in this article. However, all fireground commanders should understand the incident command system (ICS) and the ...

Hospitals that use the Hospital Incident Command System survey to improve emergency management planning now have until Feb. 28 to submit the survey. The National Advisory Committee encourages ...

The summer of 2008 in Nassau County, New York, was marked by a historic season of human West Nile virus illness and West Nile virus activity in mosquitoes. The commissioner of Health of the State of ...

If there is anything that the last several years have taught long-term care providers about managing emergencies and disasters, it’s that strong leadership is a critical operational component to help ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Austin Police Department said it planned to buy a new incident command vehicle “to continue safety efforts in the city of Austin,” the department announced Tuesday. The $1.12 ...