EMSI is excited to participate in both the Clean Gulf 2017 conference and the All-Hazards Incident Management Team (AHIMT) Association Symposium this December. The Clean Gulf conference, scheduled December 5-7 in Houston, TX, covers spill preparedness and response topics for the exploration and production; transportation; and storage of oil and …
EMSI is pleased to announce the recent award of a five-year contract to support the U.S. Coast Guard’s national Incident Command System (ICS) training program. EMSI was the Coast Guard’s first ICS training support contractor from 2000-2012 and is proud to resume support to the Coast Guard effective immediately. Under …
EMSI is pleased to announce that we will be offering our recently revised and enhanced ICS-220 Initial Response Team course (All-Hazards Initial Response) at the All-Hazards IMT (AHIMT) Association (AHIMTA) Training & Education Symposium, December 2-3. Training enrollment is limited to symposium attendees and will be managed by the AHIMT …
As Texas and Louisiana recover from Hurricane Harvey and the Caribbean and Florida brace for Hurricane Irma, EMSI is ready to assist government and private sector entities with response and incident management support. Learn more about our response support services at http://www.emsics.com/response/, including: Incident Management Teams (IMT) IMT augmentation, coaching …
Like many government agencies and private industries, emergency management has its own language. From “Incident Commanders” to “IAPs” to “Staging Areas”, we use an alphabet soup of acronyms and terms to define those commonalities that enable responders across a broad spectrum to understand what we mean when we request something …
EMSI is pleased to announce that we will be attending and supporting the All-Hazards IMT Association (AHIMTA) 2017 Training & Education Symposium in San Diego, CA, in December 2017. As part of our involvement in the symposium, we will be offering our recently revised and enhanced ICS-220 Initial Response Team …
EMSI is pleased to announce the addition of Nate Russo to our team. Nate joins us after working for the last ten years with the U.S. Department of Energy / National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) in their Emergency Operations and Nuclear Counterterrorism programs. Nate will continue to support these programs …
EMSI está orgulloso de ofrecer cursos básicos de Sistemas de Comando de Incidentes (SCI) (100, 200, 300) en español. Los cursos a este nivel proporcionan una visión general de cómo funciona el SCI, incluyendo las características principales, la terminología común, los conceptos clave, la estructura organizacional y un conocimiento básico …
Hurricane season has quietly arrived. Running from June 1st through November 30th, hurricane season in recent years has taught us that areas previously thought safe may not be so anymore. Who can forget Hurricane Sandy’s devastating effects on the northeast? According to the latest forecasts released by Colorado State University …
Instructors speak in a numeric code when talking about ICS training, throwing around numbers like 300, 430, 346, 520, etc. Where do these numbers come from and what do they represent? There is a rich and relatively unknown history and explanation behind ICS course numbers and in this article, we …
