By Jeffrey A. Larsen (eds.)
An creation to the variety of strength catastrophe situations, masking the problems and organizational relationships of significance to the coed of outcome administration. those contain the jobs, duties, and coordination standards of first responders, the dep. of place of birth defense, the dep. of safeguard, and the military.
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Despite the fact that they are often well understood and, in some cases, relatively predictable, the best efforts of all concerned will never prevent them. Even so, anticipatory actions—evacuations, the pre-staging of salvage and rescue equipment, the move of relief supplies—can help reduce the initial and long-term impact of natural disasters. In that sense, natural disasters are not completely beyond the influence of human will and capability. Man-made disasters, on the other hand, can be prevented.
The most common incidents are local emergencies, which typically manifest themselves in the form of a fire, factory accident, automobile accident, or criminal violence. 3 These events, while less frequent and often more predictable than emergencies, are more destructive to the population in general and usually the result of natural or technological hazards. Acts of terrorism or criminality are seldom classified as disasters, as they involve specific human intent to damage or destroy. 4 Major acts of terrorism are increasingly considered a major segment of this category.
This organizational model operates as described below: Area Command is an organization to oversee the management of multiple incidents handled individually by separate ICS organizations or to oversee the management of a very large or evolving incident engaging multiple Incident Management Teams. An Agency Administrator/Executive or other public official with jurisdictional responsibility for the incident usually makes the decision to establish an Area Command. An Area Command is activated only if necessary, depending on the complexity of the incident and incident management span-of-control considerations.
