âPreheat oven to 350 degrees.â I hate this phrase. First, as George Carlin pointed out, itâs linguistically absurdâyou donât preheat an oven, you heat it. More importantly, however, it gives you a false sense of how much control you have over your oven. Itâs also plain terrible advice, in many cases.
(August 2010) The incident commander is the person responsible for all aspects of an emergency response; including quickly developing incident objectives, managing all incident operations, application of resources as well as responsibility for all persons involved.
1 An Agency Administrator/Executive or other public official with jurisdictional responsibility for the incident usually makes the decision to establish an Area Command. 2  An Area Command is activated only if necessary, depending on the complexity of the incident and incident management span-of-control considerations.