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Scope

The National Response Framework describes structures for implementing nationwide response policy and operational coordination for all types of domestic incidents.

ESF

Coordination of Federal incident response is accomplished through Emergency Support Functions (ESFs). ESFs are organized groups of government and private-sector entities that provide personnel, supplies, facilities, and equipment.

National Preparedness System (NPS)

The NPS was developed to provide the approach, resources, and tools to aid the whole community in its preparedness activities to achieve the National Preparedness Goal. Part of this system involves determining what capabilities are needed, how they should be developed and sustained, and how they should be delivered.

National Preparedness Goal

A secure and resilient Nation with the capabilities required across the whole community to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from the threats and hazards that pose the greatest risk.

Prevention:

The term "prevention" refers to those capabilities necessary to avoid, prevent, or stop a threatened or actual act of terrorism. Prevention capabilities include but are not limited to: information sharing and warning; domestic counterterrorism; and preventing the acquisition or use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

Protection:

The term "protection" refers to those capabilities necessary to secure the homeland against terrorism and manmade or natural disasters. Protection capabilities include but are not limited to: defense against weapons of mass destruction (WMD) threats; defense of agriculture and food; critical infrastructure protection; protection of key leadership and events; border security; maritime security; transportation security; immigration security; and cybersecurity.

Mitigation:

The term "mitigation" refers to those capabilities necessary to reduce loss of life and property by lessening the impact of disasters. Mitigation capabilities include but are not limited to: community-wide risk reduction projects; efforts to improve the resilience of critical infrastructure and key resource lifelines; risk reduction for specific vulnerabilities from natural hazards or acts of terrorism; and initiatives to reduce future risks after a disaster has occurred.

Response:

The term "response" refers to those capabilities necessary to save lives, protect property and the environment, and meet basic human needs after an incident has occurred.

Recovery:

The term "recovery" refers to those capabilities necessary to assist communities affected by an incident to recover effectively, including but not limited to: rebuilding infrastructure systems; providing adequate interim and long-term housing for survivors; restoring health, social, and community services; promoting economic development; and restoring natural and cultural resources.

Core Advisory Group (CAG)

CAGs consist of people with cross-disabilities who advise emergency managers. They provide input on inclusive emergency operations plans, including:

Local, jurisdictional, or state accessible evacuation plans

Temporary accessible housing plans

Accessibility to, of, and in shelters

Which of the following is a benefit of implementing NRF structures and procedures?

- Scaled response

- Level of appropriate coordination

- Delivering specific resources

Which of the following are characteristics of the core capabilities?

- Are distinct critical elements necessary to meet the National Preparedness Goal

Are essential for the execution of each mission area: Prevention, Protection, Mitigation, Response, and Recovery

- Provide a common language for preparedness across the whole community

Mutual Aid Box Alarm System (MABAS)

MABAS may be activated for larger incidents under the Illinois Emergency Management Agency's statewide mutual aid plan. The statewide plan allows for resource deployment to a stricken area while leaving at least 80 percent of local resources in place to respond to ongoing, routine local emergencies.

In the correct order, use the drop down box for each option to list the steps in order that explains how the NRF to handles incidents from the lowest jurisdictional level (1) to the highest (4).

Local Response, State/Tribal Resources, State-to-State and Regional Resources, Federal Resources

Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)

NGOs play vital roles at the local, state, tribal, territorial, insular-area, and Federal levels in delivering important services, including those associated with the response core capabilities:

core capabilities:

- Identifying sheltering locations, ensuring access to those facilities, and communicating their locations to the whole community;

- Providing emergency commodities and services, such as water, food, shelter, assistance with family reunification, clothing, and supplies for post-emergency cleanup;

- Supporting the evacuation, rescue, care, and sheltering of animals displaced by the incident;

- Supporting search and rescue, transportation, and logistics services;

- Identifying and supporting the health, medical, mental health, and behavior health resources of the impacted community; and

- Supporting disaster survivors, identifying unmet needs, and developing individual recovery plans.

The American Red Cross

is chartered by Congress to provide relief to survivors of disasters and help people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies.

National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (National VOAD)

is an association of organizations that mitigates and alleviates the impact of disasters; provides a forum promoting cooperation, communication, coordination and collaboration; and fosters more effective delivery of services to communities impacted by a disaster. National VOAD is a consortium of over 70 national organizations and 56 territorial and state equivalents.

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC):

Within the NCMEC, the National Emergency Child Locator Center (NECLC) facilitates the expeditious identification of children and their reunification with their families.

Critical infrastructure such as utilities and hospitals are which partners responsibility?

Private Sector

How do individuals and families play an important role in emergency preparedness? (Select all that apply)

- Reduce hazards around the house

- Prepare emergency supply kits

- Volunteer with an established organization

Chief Elected or Appointed Official

Role: Jurisdictional chief executives are responsible for the public safety and welfare of the people of their jurisdiction. Officials provide strategic guidance and resources across all five mission areas. Chief elected or appointed officials must have a clear understanding of their emergency management roles and responsibilities and how to apply the response core capabilities because they may need to make decisions regarding resources and operations during an incident to stabilize community lifelines.

Local Emergency Manager

Role: The jurisdiction's emergency manager oversees the day-to-day emergency management programs and activities. The emergency manager works with chief elected and appointed officials to establish unified objectives regarding the jurisdiction's emergency plans and activities. This role entails coordinating and integrating all elements of the community. The emergency manager coordinates the local emergency management program.

Department and Agency Heads

Role: Local government department and agency heads collaborate with the emergency manager during development of local emergency plans and provide key response resources.

Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC)

EMAC is:

- Administered by the National Emergency Management Association

- An interstate mutual aid agreement

- A way to streamline the interstate mutual aid and assistance process

Governor

The public safety and welfare of a state's residents are the fundamental responsibilities of every Governor. The Governor coordinates state resources and provides the strategic guidance for response to all types of incidents. This includes supporting local governments as needed and coordinating assistance with other states and the Federal Government.

State Emergency Management Agency Director

The director of the state Emergency Management Agency is responsible for ensuring that the state is prepared to deal with large-scale emergencies and for coordinating the statewide response to any such incident.

State Homeland Security Advisor

Many states have designated Homeland Security Advisors who serve as counsel to the governor on homeland security issues and may serve as a liaison between the governor's office, the state homeland security structure, and other organizations both inside and outside the state.

National Guard

The National Guard is an important state and Federal resource available for planning, preparing, and responding to natural or manmade incidents. National Guard members have expertise in critical areas, such as emergency medical response; communications; logistics; search and rescue; civil engineering; chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear response and planning; and decontamination.

Federal Response Key Players

Secretary of Homeland Security, FEMA Administrator, Attorney General, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, Director of National Intelligence, Other Department and Agency Heads

Which agency responds to an incident when it has the potential to expand beyond the capability of local jurisdiction?

State government

Safety and Security

Law enforcement and government services, as well as the associated assets that maintain communal security, provide search and rescue, evacuation, and firefighting capabilities, and promote responder safety.

Food, Water, Shelter

Support systems that enable the sustainment of life, such as water treatment, transmission, and distribution systems; food retail and distribution networks; wastewater collection and treatment systems; as well as sheltering and agriculture.

Health and Medical

Infrastructure and service providers for medical care, public health, patient movement, fatality management, behavioral health, veterinary support, and health or medical supply chains.

Energy

Service providers for electric power infrastructure, composed of generation, transmission, and distribution systems. Disruptions can have a limiting effect on the functionality of other community lifelines.

Communications

Infrastructure owners and operators of broadband internet, cellular networks, landline telephony, cable services (to include undersea cable), satellite communications services, and broadcast networks (radio and television). Communication systems encompass a large set of diverse modes of delivery and technologies, often intertwined but largely operating independently. Services include elements such as alerts, warnings, and messages, as well as 911 and dispatch. Also includes accessibility of financial services.

Transportation

Multiple modes of transportation that often serve complementary functions and create redundancy, adding to the inherent resilience in overall transportation networks. Transportation infrastructure generally includes highways/roadways, mass transit, railway aviation, maritime, pipeline, and intermodal systems.

Hazardous Material

Systems that mitigate threats to public health/welfare and the environment. This includes assessment of facilities that use, generate, and store hazardous substances, as well as specialized conveyance assets and efforts to identify, contain, and remove incident debris, pollution contaminants, oil or other hazardous substances.

Critical Transportation

Objective: Provide transportation (including infrastructure access and accessible transportation services) for response priority objectives, including the evacuation of people and animals, and the delivery of vital response personnel, equipment, and services into the affected areas.

Environmental Response/Health and Safety

Objective: Conduct appropriate measures to ensure the protection of the health and safety of the public and workers, as well as the environment, from all-hazards in support of responder operations and the affected communities.

Fatality Management Services

Objective: Provide fatality management services, including decedent remains recovery and victim identification, working with local, state, tribal, territorial, insular area, and Federal authorities to provide mortuary processes, temporary storage or permanent internment solutions, sharing information with mass care services for the purpose of reunifying family members and caregivers with missing persons/remains, and providing counseling to the bereaved.

Fire Management and Suppression

Objective: Provide structural, wildland, and specialized firefighting capabilities to manage and suppress fires of all types, kinds, and complexities while protecting the lives, property, and the environment in the affected area.

Infrastructure Systems

Objective: Stabilize critical infrastructure functions, minimize health and safety threats, and efficiently restore and revitalize systems and services to support a viable, resilient community.

Mass-Care Services

Objective: Provide life-sustaining and human services to the affected population, to include hydration, feeding, sheltering, temporary housing, evacuee support, reunification, and distribution of emergency supplies.

Mass Search and Rescue Operations

Objective: Deliver traditional and atypical search and rescue capabilities, including personnel, services, animals, and assets to survivors in need, with the goal of saving the greatest number of endangered lives in the shortest time possible.

On-Scene Security, Protection, and Law Enforcement

Objective: Ensure a safe and secure environment through law enforcement and related security and protection operations for people and communities located within affected areas and also for response personnel engaged in lifesaving and life-sustaining operations.

Operational Communications

Objective: Ensure the capacity for timely communications in support of security, situational awareness, and operations by any and all means available, among and between affected communities in the impact area and all response forces.

Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Objective: Deliver essential commodities, equipment, and services in support of impacted communities and survivors, to include emergency power and fuel support, as well as the coordination of access to community staples. Synchronize logistics capabilities and enable the restoration of impacted supply chains.

Public Health, Healthcare, and Emergency Medical Services

Objective: Provide lifesaving medical treatment via Emergency Medical Services and related operations and avoid additional disease and injury by providing targeted public health, medical, and behavioral health support, and products to all affected populations.

Situational Assessment

Objective: Provide all decision makers with decision-relevant information regarding the nature and extent of the hazard, any cascading effects, and the status of the response.

Which of the following are part of the community lifelines that represent the most basic services a community relies on? (Select all that apply)

- Energy

- Communications

- Transportation

Stabilizing community lifelines is the primary effort during?

Incident Response

Which Core Capability makes it possible to manage the life cycle of a potential crisis, determine capability requirements, and help stakeholders learn their roles?

Planning

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Integrated Operations Coordination Center (CIOCC)

The CIOCC is composed of the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, the National Infrastructure Coordinating Center, and the National Coordinating Center for Communications. It is the focal point for federal partners, the private sector, and local, state, tribal, and territorial governments to obtain situational awareness, technical assistance, and integrated, actionable information to secure and defend the Nation's cyber, physical, and communications infrastructure.

National Operations Center

Most Cabinet-level departments and agencies have at least one Headquarters-level operations center.

A wide range of such centers maintain situational awareness within their functional areas and provide relevant information to the DHS National Operations Center (NOC).

National Response Coordination Center

The NRCC:

Is FEMA's focal point for national resource coordination

Provides overall emergency management coordination

Conducts operational planning

Deploys national-level teams

Builds and maintains a common operating picture

Regional Response Coordination Center (RRCC)

Each of FEMA's 10 regional offices maintains a Regional Response Coordination Center (RRCC). An RRCC is a coordination center that expands to become an interagency facility in anticipation of a serious incident or immediately following an incident.

Joint Field Office

Unified Coordination is typically directed from a Joint Field Office, or JFO.

A JFO is a temporary Federal facility that provides a central location for coordination of response efforts by the private sector, NGOs, and all levels of government.

Strategic Information and Operations Center (SIOC)

- Maintains situational awareness of criminal or terrorist threats, critical incidents, and crises--both foreign and domestic--regardless of cause or origin

- Provides FBI Headquarters executives, domestic field offices, and overseas legal attachés with timely notification and dissemination of strategic information

- Shares information and intelligence with other EOCs at all levels of government

- Provides a secure venue to support crisis management, special event monitoring, and significant operations

- Provides command, control, communications connectivity, and a common operating picture for managing FBI operational responses and assets anywhere in the world

Joint Operations Center (JOC)

The JOC is led by an FBI On-Scene Commander and is supported by a Federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal command group and a consequence management group, as appropriate.

The JOC is the place from which the FBI leads and coordinates the law enforcement operational response, on-scene law enforcement, and related investigative and intelligence activities.

National Military Command Center (NMCC)

- The Department of Defense NMCC is the nation's focal point for continuous monitoring and coordination of worldwide military operations. It directly supports combatant commanders, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Secretary of Defense, and the President in the command of U.S. Armed Forces in peacetime contingencies and war.

- The NMCC participates in a wide variety of activities, ranging from missile warning and attack assessment to management of peacetime operations such as Defense Support of Civil Authorities during national emergencies.

National Policy—The National Security Council

The National Security Council is the principal policy body for consideration of national security policy issues requiring Presidential determination. The National Security Council:

- Advises and assists the President in integrating all aspects of national security policy as it affects the United States.

- Is the President's principal means for coordinating Executive Branch departments and agencies in the development and implementation of national security policy.

How do coordination structures help organize and measure the whole community's capabilities? (Select all that apply.)

- Address the requirements of the Response mission area

- Improve access to response resources

- Facilitate problem solving

- Foster coordination prior to and following an incident

Unified coordination

the term used to describe the primary state/tribal/territorial/insular area/federal incident management activities conducted at the incident level. Unified coordination is typically directed from a Joint Field Office (JFO), a temporary federal facility that provides a central location for coordination of response efforts.

Federal Operations Support for Non-Stafford Act Incidents

Federal agencies that have responsibility for on-scene, tactical-level operations may establish incident command and area command structures, or they may coordinate with State and local agencies to form Unified Incident Command and Unified Area Command structures.

Means:

ESFs and other organizing bodies—the means—are the way we organize across departments and agencies, community organizations, and industries to enhance coordination and integration to deliver the Response Core Capabilities. Through these ESFs, government and private-sector entities provide the personnel, supplies, facilities, and equipment needed for Response.

Ways:

Response Core Capabilities describe the grouping of response actions—the ways—that can be taken to stabilize and re-establish the lifelines. FEMA executes Lines of Effort (LOE) to operationalize the Core Capabilities (the ways) for response and recovery planning and operations.

Ends:

Lifelines describe the critical services within a community that must be stabilized or re-established—the ends—to alleviate threats to life and property.

What is the Tribal Assistance Coordination Group (TAC-G)?

The Federal MAC Group that assists tribes