| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Incident Command System | The Incident Command System (ICS) is a management system used within the United States to organize emergency response and was designed to offer a scalable response to incidents of any magnitude. The system is designed to grow shrink along with the incident, allowing more resources to be smoothly added into the system when required, and also the smooth release of resources when no longer needed. (references) | ||
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| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Incident Command System | Environment | The organizational arrangement wherein one person, normally the Fire Chief of the impacted district, is in charge of an integrated, comprehensive emergency response organization and the emergency incident site, backed by an Emergency Operations Center staff with resources, information, and advice. (ICS). (references) | |
| Incident command system (ICS) | Mining | The combination of facilities, equipment, personnel, procedure and communications operating within a common organizational structure, with responsibility for the management of assigned resources to effectively accomplish stated objectives pertaining to an incident. (references) | |
| Incident command system (ICS) | Physics | The combination of facilities, equipment, personnel, procedures, and communications operating within a common organizational structure with responsibility for the management of assigned resources to effectively accomplish stated objectives pertaining to an incident. Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency. Exemplary Practices in Emergency Management: The California Firescope Program. FEMA, 1987. (references) | |
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