National Incident Management System (NIMS) Briefing

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National Incident Management System (NIMS)
Briefing

• What this means to your qualification!!

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Paragraph 1 from NIMS Memo dated 10 APR 2008

• The National Board recently voted to implement
  NIMS training for CAP emergency services
  personnel.
• The board made the decision to become NIMS
  compliant so that our volunteers will be better
  prepared to support all our Federal, state, and
  local customers.
• Completing the same NIMS training that all other
  agencies are striving toward will make CAP a more
  viable partner that is able to work well with
  other similarly trained organizations.
• It will also help your units qualify for grants
  that are only available to those organizations
  that are NIMS compliant.

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Our Requirements

• Members will need to complete online courses by
  31 December 2008 in order to remain qualified
• All online courses are available at
  http//training.fema.gov/IS/crslist.asp
• ICS 400 training is the exception and needs to be
  completed by 30 September 2009.

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Requirements

• If you did not complete any of these courses your
  qualifications are currently suspended
• You have until 1 February to complete the courses
  or your qualifications will expire and you will
  have to requalify
• The next slides tell you what courses are
  required for you to maintain or earn your
  qualifications

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Numbering

• The numerical numbering is not sequential
• They have been described by order of need

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IS-700

• Course NameNational Incident Management System
  (NIMS) An Introduction
• CEUs 0.3 College Credits n/a
• Required for All personnel training for any
  specialty beyond GES
• If you have a GES and plan to train you need this

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IS 200

• Course NameICS for Single Resources and Initial
  Action Incidents
• CEUs 0.3College Credits 1.0 (When combined w/
  IS-100.a)
• Required for Mission Pilot, MSA, GTL and Radio
  Operator or Higher
• If you are or want to be any of these you must
  take this course

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IS 800

• Course NameNational Response Framework, An
  Introduction
• CEUs 0.3College Credits 1.0 (When combined w/
  IS-1900)
• Required for Branch Directors (Ground, Air) and
  Key base Staff (Comm Unit Leader, Information
  Officer) or higher
• If you are or want to be these qualifications you
  must take this course

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IS 300This is not an Online Course

• ICS 300 Intermediate ICS for Expanding Incidents
• Required for Branch Directors (Ground, Air) and
  Key base Staff (Comm Unit Leader, Information
  Officer) or Higher
• This course is designed to enable personnel to
  operate efficiently using the Incident Command
  System (ICS) in supervisory roles on expanding or
  Type 3 incidents.
• This course requires 24 hours for presentation.
  The course unit topics include ICS fundamentals
  review, incident/event assessment, unified
  command, incident resource management, planning
  process, demobilization, transfer of command, and
  closeout.

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IS 400 This is not an Online Course

• Required for Incident Commanders and Recommended
  for Section Chief Positions.
• ICS 400 Advanced ICS for Major and/or Complex
  Incidents
• This course is designed to enable personnel to
  operate efficiently in the advanced application
  of the Incident Command System (ICS). I-400
  provides training for senior personnel who are
  expected to perform in a management capacity in a
  major and/or complex incident environment. This
  course will require 16-20 hours for presentation.
  The course units and lessons provide fundamentals
  review for Command and General Staff, unified
  command (optional), major and/or complex
  incident/event management, area command, and
  multi-agency coordination.

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Breakdown

• MSA, UDFT and FTMs need ICS 200
• FTLs need ICS 700, and ICS 200
• Pilot, Observer, Scanner need ICS 700, and ICS
  200
• Air Branch, Air Operations, Ground Branch and
  Ground Operations need ICS 700, ICS 200, ICS 800
  and ICS 300
• Incident Commanders need all plus ICS 400

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Questions?

• RCS Emergency Services Officer
• LtC Candi Jones
• Email candi.jones_at_caprcs.org