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 ...

GARDEN GROVE, CA, UNITED STATES, November 12, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- When responding to a scene of an incident or disaster, fast identification and recognition of ...

Mobile Emergency Response Team are on location at the Hazard Area Command Center providing assistance in local flood response in Hazard, Kentucky, on July 30, 2022. (Robert Kaufmann/FEMA) FEMA has ...

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 ...

In the simplest sense, incident command is the individual who oversees what’s going on, be it a straightforward run or the most complex of calls. In more complicated terms, it’s the individual who ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced today a new online course that will help first responders understand the concepts and ...