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When an Incident Complex is established over several individual incidents, what happens to the
previously identified incidents?
They become branches or divisions within the Operations Section of the Incident Complex.
Which of the following factors is a characteri...
When an Incident Complex is established over several individual incidents, what happens to the
previously identified incidents?
They become branches or divisions within the Operations Section of the Incident Complex.
Which of the following factors is a characteristic of a complex incident?
a. The incident involves a vehicle fire, an injured person, or a police traffic stop.
b. Does not require extensive post-incident recovery efforts.
c. Includes widespread damage to property/environment/economy.
d. The incident can be handled with one or two single resources with up to six personnel.
Includes widespread damage to property/environment/economy.
Why might an Area Command be activated during an incident?
a. To oversee the management of a very large incident that has multiple Incident management Teams
assigned to it.
b. Makes multipoint ordering easier.
c. There is not an issue with resource support to the entire affected area.
d. The incident is easily managed by separate Incident Management Teams.
To oversee the management of a very large incident that has multiple Incident management Teams
assigned to it.
What is an advantage of using Area Command? Advantages include:
a. Informal yet flexible and based on oral agreements between jurisdictions.
b. Coordination between incidents.
c. Avoids disadvantages of Unity of Command.
d. Serves as a Coordination Center to develop tactics.
Coordination between incidents.
Regarding EOC and MAC Groups, what is an advantage of activating Area Command?
a. Increases responsibility of the EOCs/MAC Group officials.
b. Reduces resource needs of the EOCs/MAC Group officials.
c. Reduces the workload of the EOCs/MAC Group officials.
d. Moves policy and scarce resource decisions to the Area Commander.
Reduces the workload of the EOCs/MAC Group officials.
What type of activation should be considered when multiple incidents are using similar and scarce
resources?
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