The Incident Command System (ICS) is a systematized approach to deal with the order, control, and coordination of crisis reaction giving a typical chain of importance inside which responders from various organizations can be viable (Incident command system (ICS), 2007).
On the eleventh day of September 2001, nineteen activists associated with the Islamic radical social event al-Qaeda enlisted four air ships and did suicide ambushes against centers in the United States. Two planes were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, as the third plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C., while the fourth plane smashed in Pennsylvania at a field. As often as possible insinuated as 9/11, the attacks achieved wide destruction
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on a sensible Tuesday morning, when an American Airlines Boeing 767 slammed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City stacked with 20,000 gallons of plane fuel. The impact left an immeasurable, seething opening near the 80th floor of the 110-story skyscraper, in a glimmer executing a few people and getting hundreds more in higher floors. As the flight of the tower and its twin got in advancement, TV cameras indicated live pictures of what at initially appeared, all in all, to be a peculiarity incident. By then, 18 minutes after the fundamental plane hit, a second Boeing 767 (United Airlines Flight 175) showed up out of the sky, turned unmistakably toward the World Trade Center and cut into the south tower close to the 60th floor. The effect achieved a tremendous impact that showered bursting junk over including structures and the paths underneath. America was under attack. (Haddow, Bullock, & Coppola, …show more content…
With regards to association, New York City Office of Emergency Management was the office in charge of coordination of the City 's reaction to the assaults. It was going by then-Director Richard Sheirer, the office was compelled to abandon its central station, situated in 7 World Trade Center, inside hours of the assault. This shows the use of occurrence charge framework to manage a crisis circumstance. Richard Sheirer was the occurrence officer, he was the individual in charge of all parts of a crisis reaction; including rapidly creating episode goals, dealing with every single occurrence operation, use of assets and additionally obligation regarding all persons included. His part was to set needs and characterize the association of the occurrence reaction groups and the general episode activity arrangement. Span of control alludes to the quantity of staff controlled specifically by a prevalent (Walker,
Training should include actual or mock responses by state and federal agencies if the scenario would call for support and mutual aid. The incident command system must be utilized in training and all responders should be familiar with the concepts. ICS is a standardized and flexible management system making it ideal for any incident especially those requiring multi-jurisdictional agency responders to work together (Department of Homeland Security, 2008). The standardization of terms, procedures and command system of ICS dictates that responders are supervised by one supervisor in the chain of command and are delivered specific instructions from one source. All emergency responders nationally should be fully trained and proficient in its application. Agencies from different jurisdictions should have the ability to work together within its guidelines. The flexibility of ICS allows for its use in any incident type or size and it can be expanded or contracted if the incident becomes larger or smaller than
On the morning of September 11/2001, 19 terrorist working for the Al Qaeda terrorist organization hijacked four commercial planes. They attempted to fly them into multiple U.S targets. One of the planes, American Airlines, flight 11, crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center at 8:50 a.m. Another plane, United Airlines, flight 175, crashed into the south tower at 9:04 a.m. These tragedies took the lives of nearly 3000 people and affected the lives of millions.
On September 11, 2001, the Islamist terrorist group known as al-Qaeda launched a series of terrorist attacks on the United States of America, specifically in the New York City and Washington D.C areas. Nineteen al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four planes with the intention of using them as suicide attacks that would crash those planes into designated buildings, or targets. Two of the four passenger jets were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, both of which collapsed entirely within two hours of being hit. The third plane was crashed into the Pentagon, and the west side of the building, which is the Headquarters of the US Department of Defense, partially collapsed. The fourth hijacked plane was intended for the US Capitol Building in Washington D.C, but instead crashed into a field in Pennsylvania after the passengers of the plane interfered with the hijackers. The attack on September 11th was devastatingly fatal—almost 3,000 people died in the attacks, including all of the al-Qaeda hijackers and every passenger aboard the four planes.
The CPP is inherently different from traditional models developed by federal entities in several ways, the most important being that it is a “bottom-up” planning method as dictated by one of the directives of the Act of 2007. FEMA was asked to partner with State, local and tribal governments, emergency responders, the private sector, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in addition to other federal agencies typically involved with disaster preparedness, response and recovery efforts. Most FEMA and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) systems and methods in the past have been driven from the “top down”, such as the Incident Command System (ICS) and the National Incident Management Systems (NIMS) and have focused on the structure of command and control rather than coordinated partnerships (Ruback et al., 2010). Another significant directive of the Act of 2007 is the specific focus on preparedness for catastrophic events rather than disasters, which are more regional in scope.
The morning of September 11, 2001 began with the hijacking of four planes from Boston’s Logan airport. The goal of the fateful event was to cripple the United States economy by destroying what was considered to be the center of its power, Wall Street, the Pentagon and the White House (Amadeo). The terrorists successfully hit one of their targets, both towers of the American Trade Center, by 9 AM the morning of September 11th. The Pentagon in Washington D.C. was the next target with American Airlines Flight 77 crashing into it around 9:30 AM. The last plane, Flight 93, which was headed for targets in Washington, either the White House or the Capitol Building, crashed into western Pennsylvania after the passengers attacked the terrorists on board (Amadeo). The death total was staggering, 2975 people died in the attacks on September 11, 2001. This number surpassed the number of people who died in the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 1941
...nd incident response are the broad spectrum of activities organizations engage in to provide effective operations, coordination and support. Incident management includes directing acquiring, coordinating and delivering resources to incident sites and sharing information with the public.
Tuesday September 11, 2001 will be forever in the minds of Americans all across the world, especially those in the United States. At approximately 8:45 a.m. in New York City, American Airlines Boeing 767 crashed into north tower of the World Trade Center (History.com, 2014). The plane crashed into the 80th floor of the World Trade Center. Many people were killed instantly, as a result of the crash. Unfortunately, less than 20 minutes later another Boeing 767 from United Airlines crashed into the south tower of the 60th floor of the World Trade Center. Once again, the impact of the second crash killed many people. Those not killed immediately, were trapped on the upper floors with little to no chance of survival. The two planes also caused debris that was on fire to land on surrounding buildings (History.com, 2014). America had no idea that those two planes crashes ...
On September 11, 2001 a series catastrophic events occurred in New York City, New York. Al-Qaeda planned strategically conducted events, known as suicide attacks. Nineteen al-Qaeda members hijacked four commercial airplanes, including United Airlines Flight 93, American Airlines Flight 11, American Airlines Flight 77 and United Airlines 175. Two of the planes purposely crashed into the World Trade Center buildings. In addition, another plane crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington, VA. and the fourth plane crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Those passengers on the fourth plane, United Airlines Flight 93, attempted to win control over the plane; however, there were no survivors.
At 8:46 a.m., the United States witnessed the first terroristic attack of many to come when American Airlines flight 11 crashed into the World Trade Center’s North Tower in New York City. Flight 11 impacted the tower between floors 93 and 99 ...
Now, this incident can be considered as an emergency incident at the national level in which Incident Command System (ICS) was used properly. The Incident Command System that was used in this incident is basically termed as a management system. This management system is usually
Homeland Security. (2008, 12). National Incident Management System. Retrieved 10 22, 2011, from FEMA: http://www.fema.gov/pdf/emergency/nims/NIMS_core.pdf
Incident Leader updates CRT/Administrator, and conducts on site assessment to determine the level and type of response that needs to be provided
Local, State and Federal government have unique roles which would allow the flow of communication and resources to transition smoothly during each stage of progression. The local and state level (first responders) are the most important source as they can assess, coordinate and notify the next available resources of what is needed. State and local governments are the front runners of planning for and managing the consequences of a terrorist incident using available resources in the critical hours before Federal assistance can arrive (Managing the Emergency Consequences of Terrorist Incidents, July 2002). A Terrorist Incident Appendix (TIA) was designed to mirror an Emergency Operations Plan in relations to terrorist incidents. The TIA consists of six phases: Initiation, Concept Development, Plan Development, Plan Review Development of supporting plans, procedures and materials and Validation of plans using tabletop, functional, and full scale exercises. The TIA should be compared to those plans of existing Emergency Operation Plans (EOP) in place at the local and state level. Comparing plans before and incident allows time for comparison and revision of the various functions which will prevent disconnects to ensure coordination and
HM Government (2008) Fire and Rescue Manual, Volume 2, Fire Service Operations, Incident Command, 3rd Ed.
Sometimes one phase of the emergency management tends to overlap of adjacent phase. The concept of “phases” has been used since the 1930’s to help describe, examine, and understand disasters and to help organize the practice of emergency management. In an article titled Reconsidering the Phases of Disaster, David Neal cites different examples of different researchers using five, six, seven, and up to eight phases long before the four phases became the standard. (Neal 1997) This acknowledges that critical activities frequently cover more than one phase, and the boundaries between phases are seldom precise. Most sources also emphasize that important interrelationships exist among all the ph...