Continued from EMC073
- Operations Coordination Center (OCC)
- The primary facility of Multiagency Coordination System. It houses the staff and equipment necessary to perform the MACS functions.
- Orthophoto Maps
- Aerial photographs corrected to scale such that geographic measurements may be taken directly from the prints.
- Out-of-service Resources
- Resources assigned to an incident but unable to respond for mechanical, rest, or personnel reasons.
- Overhead Personnel
- Personnel who are assigned to supervisory positions which includes the Incident Commander, Command Staff, General Staff, Directors, Supervisors and Unit Leaders.
- Patrol Unit
- Any light, mobile unit having limited pumping and water capacity.
- Planning Meeting
- A meeting held as needed throughout the duration of an incident, to select specific strategies and tactics for incident control operations and for service and support planning.
- Radio Cache
- A cache may consist of a number of portable radios, a base station and in some cases a repeater stored in a predetermined location for dispatch to incidents.
- Reinforced Attack
- Those resources requested in addition to the initial attack.
- Reporting Locations
- Any one of six facilities/locations where incident assigned resources may check-in. The locations are the:
- Incident Command Post,
- Resources Unit,
- Base,
- Camp,
- Staging Area or
- Division Supervisor for direct line assignments.
(Check-in at one location only.)
- Rescue Medical
- Any manned ground vehicle capable of providing emergency medical services.
- Resources
- All personnel and major items of equipment available, or potentially available, for assignment to incident task on which status is maintained.
- RESTAT
- An acronym for Resource Unit - a unit within the Planning Section.
- Section
- That organization level having functional responsibility to primary segments of incident operations such as:
- Operations
- Planning
- Logistics
- and Finance
The Section level is organizationally between the Branch and the Incident Commander.
- SITSTAT
- An acronym for the Situation Unit - a unit within the Planning Section.
- Span-of-Control
- The supervisory ratio of from three to seven individuals with five being established as the general rule of thumb.
- Staging Area
- Specified location where incident personnel and equipment are assigned on a three (3) minute available status.
- Strike Team
- Specified combinations of the same kind and type of resources, with common communications and a leader.
- Task Force
- A group of resources with common communications and a leader temporarily assembled for a specific mission.
- Technical Specialist
- Personnel with special skills who are activated only when needed. Technical specialist may be needed in the areas of: fire behavior, water resources, environmental concerns, resource use and training areas.
- Tractor Plow
- Any tracted vehicle with a plow for exposing mineral soil, with transportation and personnel for its operation.
- Unified Command
- A method for all agencies or individuals who have jurisdictional responsibility, and in some cases, those who have functional responsibility at the incident, to contribute to: Determining overall objectives for the incident. Selection of the strategy to achieve the objectives.
- Unit
- That organization element having functional responsibility for a specific incident planning, logistic, or finance activity.
- Water Tender
- Any ground vehicle capable of transporting specified quantities of water.
(End of Terminology)
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