EMSI Will Instruct Courses for the IMTA Mid-Year Academy

  The Incident Management Team Association (IMTA) Mid-Year Academy will be held at the South Carolina Fire Academy June 23-27.  Have you enrolled? EMSI is proud to partner with the IMTA, South Carolina Emergency Management Division, South Carolina State Fire, and Palmetto Incident Support Team to offer the following courses at …

Visit EMSI at 2024 Conferences

As we enter a new year, EMSI is looking forward to seeing our clients, partners, and friends at several 2024 conferences. Additionally, we look forward to meeting new members of our ever-expanding All-Hazard community at the upcoming AHIMTA, Clean Waterways, IOSC, and Clean Gulf conferences.   The All-Hazard Incident Management Team …

EMSI Blog and Newsletter Returns

After a four-year hiatus, EMSI is excited to re-launch our blog and newsletter. These tools previously allowed EMSI to communicate with our clients, partners, and the broader emergency management community, and were an effective means to share best practices and new developments from EMSI.  As the COVID-19 pandemic pushed the …

Are You Ready for Hurricane Season?

As you respond to hurricanes and other natural disasters amid the COVID pandemic, EMSI resources remain available to respond in support of your organization or community, including our Type 1 IMT resources.  While many of us are still reeling from the effects of a global pandemic, hurricane season has not …

Incident Logistics in the Age of the COVID-19 Virus

“You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.” –General Dwight D. Eisenhower There are approximately 30,000 wildland firefighters in the United States. On a large wildland fire, it is not unusual to have thousands of …

EMSI Deploys in Support of Fulton County COVID-19 Response

As part of the unified national response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, EMSI is deploying subject-matter experts to support our clients. One EMSI Team is supporting the Area Command of Fulton County, Georgia.  This EMSI Incident Management Team (IMT) is providing detailed Situation Unit capabilities and spearheading the “forward” planning …

EMSI Web-Based Opportunities

Given the recent uncertainties of face-to-face interactions due to COVID-19, EMSI is proud to announce our next evolution in delivering incident management assistance: web-based training and support. We’ve recently acquired technology to enable us to provide interactive web-based training, workshops, and exercises using live, real-time instructors, as well as support …

COVID-19 Best Practices for Emergency Managers and IMTs

The EMSI IMT is available for COVID-19 support. Contact EMSI if your organization requires incident management assistance. Emergency management, medical, and public health professionals in the United States and around the world have shifted their attention to the evolving Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.  While the complete clinical picture with regard to …