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.
The Incident Command System is a standardized approach to the command, control, and coordination of emergency response providing a common hierarchy within which responders from multiple agencies can be effective. ICS was initially developed to address problems of inter-agency responses to wildfires in California and Arizona but is now a component of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) in the US, where it has evolved into use in All-Hazards situations, ranging from active shootings to