This assignment assesses your understanding of the following Course Outcomes:
FS202-3: Apply the components of planning and operations to multiple agency responses to major incidents.
Incident Management Organizational Chart
Scenario:
Heavy rain falls are expected to affect your community beginning in 16 hours and continuing for three to four days. Predicted rainfall amounts may flood several low-lying neighborhoods in your community and make many major streets impassable. You have been assigned to coordinate the response of your community to this event for the first 12-hour operational period, beginning in four hours. The mayor has asked you to report to him your plan for organizing the preliminary management of this incident, as well as an idea of major cost calculations for the incident.
Assignment:
- Prepare your incident management organizational chart for the first 12-hour operational period utilizing ICS Form 207 from the FEMA website. the command and general staff level, it is only necessary to detail the operations and planning section functions. Identify resources in your community that could realistically be expected to fill those roles.
- Using ICS Form 202 from the same FEMA website, identify at least three operations section objectives and three planning section objectives for the first 12-hour operational period. Write the shortest appropriate SMART objectives in sentence form.
Note: This assignment will require outside research. Use at least two credible sources beyond the text material. You may consult the Library, the internet, other course material, and any other outside resources in supporting your task, using proper citations in APA style. Discuss how you evaluated the credibility of the resources used.
Assignment Rubric
Assignment Criteria
Level III
Criterion 1
Level III Max Points
Points: 15
Components of Planning and Operations
Discusses four or more components of planning and operations.
Criterion 2
Level III Max Points
Points: 15
Operations Section Objectives
Explains at least three operations section objectives for the first 12-hour operational period.
Criterion 3
Level III Max Points
Points: 15
Planning Section Objectives
Explains at least three planning section objectives for the first 12-hour operational period.
Criterion 4
Level III Max Points
Points: 15
Components of Planning and Operations Related to Multiple Agency Responses to Major Incidents
Describes the relationship of at least three agencies at multi-agency incidents and explains the objectives of the agencies best able to achieve them.
Criterion 5
Level III Max Points
Points: 10
Format and Organization
All of the following is met:
● Downloads and submits ICS Forms 202 & 207.
● Follows proper APA style in citations and reference page.
● Includes a title page, properly formatted.
Criterion 6
Level III Max Points
Points: 10
Writing
The assignment meets all of the following:
● Clearly written in Standard English.
● Free of spelling, grammar, or punctuation errors.
● References or academic sources as required including in-text citation(s).
● The document is properly formatted in APA style, per the assignment instructions.
Maximum Total Points
80 points maximum
Minimum Total Points
65 points minimum
