21st Century FEMA Course Manuals - Multiagency Coordination Systems (MAC), IS-701, Instructor Manual, for Officials, Government, First Responders (Ringbound)

This vital Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) training course manual is one of the series of influential FEMA documents providing crucial material on disasters and emergency response. IS-701: Multiagency Coordination Systems. The course objectives are as follows: Define multiagency coordination at the local, State, and Federal levels of government. Identify each agency involved in incident management activities to ensure that appropriate situational awareness and resource status information is shared through multiagency coordination. Identify typical priorities established between elements of the Multiagency Coordination System. Define key terms related to Multiagency Coordination Systems. Describe the process of acquiring and allocating resources required by incident management personnel related to the entire Multiagency Coordination System. Identify typical future resource requirements for the entire Multiagency Coordination System. Identify potential coordination and policy issues arising from an incident relative to the entire Multiagency Coordination System. Contents include: Multiagency Coordination System Development * Summary and Transition * Unit 2: Getting Ready-Pre-Incident Activities for Multiagency Coordination * Introduction and Unit Overview * Organizing Multiagency Coordination Entities * Critical MAC System Components * Activity 2.1: Assessing Multiagency Coordination System Readiness * Multiagency Coordination Policies and Procedures * Activity 2.2: Multiagency Coordination Policies and Procedures * Issues Affecting Multiagency Coordination * Summary and Transition * Unit 3: Multiagency Coordination During an Incident * Introduction and Unit Overview * Activating the Multiagency Coordination System * Requesting External Assistance * Continuing Operations * Resolving Issues That Arise During an Incident * Deactivating the MAC System * Activity 3.1: MAC System Operations * Summary and Transition * Unit 4: Reassessing Your Readiness Post-Incident * Introduction and Unit Overview * How To Assess Your Operations * Activity 4.1: What Happened? * Capturing Lessons Learned * Activity 4.2: Capturing Lessons Learned * Targeting Efforts for Improvement * Testing the System * Maintaining MAC System Readiness * Summary and Transition * Unit 4a: Tabletop Exercise * Exercise Introduction * How To Conduct This Exercise * Lesson Overview and Objective * Exercise Scenario * Exercise Inject 1 * Exercise Inject 2 * Exercise Inject 3 * Exercise Inject 4 * Exercise Inject 5 * Exercise Debriefing * Summary and Transition As an incident becomes more complex, a Multiagency Coordination, or MAC, System is used to coordinate and support the response efforts. A MAC System is a combination of integrated facilities, equipment, personnel, procedures, and communications with responsibility for coordinating and supporting incident management activities. The MAC System is much larger than a single facility and includes a network of elements all designed to support the Incident Command. The overall purpose of the MAC System is good situational awareness of having a coordination system and the command and control systems in place to have good situational awareness of what the effects that disaster has had on our community. A MAC System includes both command and coordination components. In a MAC System, direct tactical and operational responsibility for conducting incident management activities rests with the Incident Command or Area Command. The coordination components of the MAC System support the on-scene commanders by: Establishing incident management policies and priorities; Facilitating logistical support and resource tracking; Making informed resource allocation decisions; Maintaining a common operating picture by coordinating incident-related information; and coordinating interagency and intergovernmental issues.