This past week, EMSI conducted a three day exercise for the National Capital Region (NCR) Incident Management Team (IMT). Held in Front Royal, VA March 14-16, the exercise included participants not only from the NCR IMT, but from the Central Virginia and Hampton Road IMTs, as well as participants from …
Continuing to build the emergency management community, EMSI recently participated in the annual All-Hazards Incident Management Team Association(AHIMTA) Training and Education Symposium in Denver, CO, which was attended by nearly 500 all-hazards incident management professionals. As part of the conference, EMSI provided an ICS-310 Incident Commander course for attendees. Nearly …
EMSI is excited to announce that we will be participating in two important upcoming industry conferences, the Clean Gulf Conference and the All-Hazards IMT Association Training and Education Symposium. Clean Gulf The Clean Gulf Conference will be held November 10-12 in New Orleans. Clean Gulf covers spill preparedness and response …
Gulf Coast – An inbound Motor Tanker experiences a loss of propulsion, resulting in the Captain’s quick decision to drop anchor outside the entrance to the port. As the ship continues to drift, the anchor is drug over an underwater pipeline, cutting it open. Shortly thereafter, dark oil and heavy …
Incident management is as important as ever when dealing with hazardous materials incidents. This was demonstrated during the recent Department of Energy (DOE) RAPSTONE drill in Richland, WA, where responders from the DOE Radiological Assistance Program (RAP) and the Consequence Management Advanced Command (CMAC) conducted training to prepare for a …
EMSI is pleased to announce that we will be attending and supporting the All-Hazards IMT Association (AHIMTA) 2015 Training & Education Symposium in Denver, CO, in December 2015. As part of our involvement in the symposium, we will be offering our ICS-310: Intermediate Incident Commander training course during the pre- …
EMSI recently had the pleasure of presenting an ICS-341, Incident Response Planning course, for USCG Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach at Fort McArthur. Seventeen members of USCG active duty and auxiliary attended the course taught September 20-24, 2010. This course teaches skills needed to implement the Incident Command System planning process …
