All of you who respond to your local Emergency Operations Center (EOC) during your career will be interested in reading this bulletin. Please share this with other emergency management personnel in your jurisdiction. Vacancies exist for Integrated Emergency Management Course (IEMCs) through September 2008 – we encourage you to apply today.
Protecting the population is a primary responsibility of government, and fulfilling this responsibility depends on the abilities of emergency personnel to prepare for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate against disaster. This means developing and maintaining a high standard of readiness and an ability to function effectively under crisis conditions. Emergency personnel can attain readiness either through managing emergencies or through participating in exercises. Clearly, exercises are the preferred method of gaining the necessary expertise.
Integrated Emergency Management Courses (IEMCs), offered by the Emergency Management Institute (EMI) of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), place individuals in a realistic crisis situation within a structured learning environment. |
For descriptions of IEMCs, please visit our website at: http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IEMC/
IEMCs allow individuals to rehearse their real-life roles in functional EOC exercises that simulate a realistic emergency situation.
In a policy room, elected and appointed officials and key department heads meet to develop policy statements and prepare critical information for release to their citizens. The EOC manages resources to combat the disaster and develops an EOC incident action plan (IAP). The operations room, made up of first responders, public works, volunteer and faith-based organizations, business, utilities and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), develops standard operating procedures based on the jurisdiction’s emergency plans.
For more information, contact Steven Heidecker at 301-447-1822 or steven.heidecker@dhs.gov.
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