he overall course goal is to promote effective response by:

Familiarizing you with the Incident Command System (ICS) and the NIMS principles used to manage incidents.
Preparing you to coordinate with response partners from all levels of government and the private sector.

Objective:

At the end of this lesson, you should be able to:

Describe the 14 NIMS management characteristics.

Identify the five major ICS functional areas.
Describe the role of the Incident Commander.
Describe the selection of and transfer of command between Incident Commanders.
Identify the position titles associated with the Command Staff.
Describe the roles of the Command Staff.
Differentiate between incident command and incident coordination

In the previous lesson, you learned that the Command Staff supports the Incident Commander who is responsible for overall management of the incident. This lesson introduces you to the General Staff. By the end of this lesson, you should be able to

In this lesson you will be given an opportunity to apply information presented in the previous lessons. You will be given a scenario involving flooding and you will be asked to select which NIMS Management Characteristics are demonstrated throughout the scenario.