An organizational unit representing a facility where tools, equipment, and/or supplies are stored and made available for incident use through the national ordering system.

An organizational unit with no jurisdictional authority or responsibilities but has resources to support the interagency incident management community.

An organizational unit that may be used for other incident types such as severity or support records.

An organizational unit with jurisdictional authority responsibility for interagency incident management. 

A fire detected via artificial intelligence using computer-vision to monitor fire starts and send notification without human interpretation.

A fire detected by a human actively viewing the fire camera footage.

The primary contact between the agency and the victim’s family

This is an informal session held immediately following the incident, within 24 hours. It is peer support led, and focuses on initial venting of feelings and stress education.

An adaptive short-term helping process that focuses solely on an immediate and identifiable problem to enable the individual(s) affected to return to their daily routine(s) more quickly and with a lessened likelihood of experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder.

A fatality or other event that can have serious long-term adverse effects on the agency, its employees and their families, or the community.