The final report issued by the 9/11 Commission is a devastating indictment of the government agencies that failed to detect and prevent the terrorist attacks that took the lives of 2,973 people, ...

Aside from the flood of obvious concerns involving the environmental and financial impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a frustration among some in the emergency ...

Incident Command System/Unified Command (ICS/UC) is an efficient tool used to manage emergency responses especially those that are multi-jurisdictional. The concept of ICS was born over forty years ...

A radical overhaul of the National Civil Protection Mechanism will be brought about by the establishment of 13 Regional ...

Two volunteer fire departments in Norwich, Connecticut, are considering a legal challenge to a new Unified Command Structure. The new structure, implemented after a fatal fire, aims to standardize ...