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 ...

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Tens of thousands of people have taken the online basic Incident Command System (ICS) training. How much of that do they really retain over time? It all becomes very real when someone is told they are ...

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 phrase “command and control” has been used for decades to describe vital skills and abilities that an incident commander (IC) needs to be effective on the fireground. More recently, the term is ...