Mounted search and rescue

[Cathy <bmr@calinet.com>]

Jorene,

When you say that ICS and NIMS are required for first responders does that 
include a Sheriff's Posse with no extra federal funding?  The posse I have 
recently joined say they don't have to do this.  If this is required 
regardless, I would like to know where this is documented.

Funny thing is the groundpounder unit does require these but the Posse is a 
separate unit and doesn't run by the same rules.

Thank you,
Cathy Blaser

At 11:19 AM 12/6/2005 -0800, you wrote:
> All first responder types in the USA are now required to have basic
> certification in the Incident Command System (ICS) and National Incident
> Management System (NIMS). This is for all first responders (including SAR),
> not just those responding to disaster or somehow working with FEMA. Meeting
> this requirement has federal funding attached, and most officials will refer
> to this as NIMS compliance.
>
> Online training and testing are available on FEMA's Independent Study (IS)
> program:
>  http://training.fema.gov/emiweb/IS/crslist.asp
>
> The current requirements are:
> IS-200 (pre-requisite of 100) for  ICS
> IS-700 for Intro to NIMS
>
> ICS 300 and 400 have been re-written and are now available for management
> level from the state training officer or through EMI.
>
> All are now required to be using ICS daily, at every incident. There are
> forms online related to using ICS to document the incident, etc.
>  http://www.nwcg.gov/pms/forms/icsforms.htm
>
> ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
> Jorene Downs
> Tulare Co SAR - Hasty Team ICP Team
>  www.ceoates.com/sar
> Tulare-Kings CERT
>  www.tk-cert.org
>
>
>
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