This story originally appeared in the Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2007 edition of the. Drama students from Lassen High School helped ...

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 ...

The one-of-a-kind FireFusion conference provides in-depth information to fire departments, chiefs, officers and firefighters on how the latest technology can improve incident command, operations and ...

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 ...

An effectively implemented incident command system saves lives by promoting firefighter accountability and controlling activity. Incident command is the fundamental building block of a much larger ...