EM0C16 ICS Resources 
To:   Emergency Communications Units - Information Bulletin
To:   Emergency Management Agencies via Internet and Radio
By:   Auxiliary Communications Service (ACS) of the
      California Governor's Office of Emergency Services

The resources used by the Operations Section Chief fall into
three categories: (1) assigned - those performing an active
assignment; (2) available - those ready for an assignment; and
(3) those out-of-service; i.e., not ready for assignment - not
available, not ready or being rested.)

Resources are classified in three groups:
(1) Single Resources, such as individual engines, bulldozers
assigned as primary tactical units. A single resource is the
equipment plus the required people to properly utilize it. The
fire truck and personnel sent to the original fire was a single
resource.

(2) Task Force, any combination of resources temporarily
assembled for a specific mission. All elements of the Task Force
have common communications and a leader who normally should have
a separate vehicle. Task Forces are for specific tactical needs
and in the fire scenario several Task Forces were dispatched to
isolated farms in the path of the fire. When their work was
completed they may be demobilized as single resources.

(3) Strike Teams are a set number of resources of the same kind
and type, with an established minimum number of personnel with
common communications, always with a leader, usually in a
separate vehicle. Strike teams can be made up of engines, hand
crews, plows, bulldozers and any other kind of resource where a
combination of common elements become a tactical resource.

Communications, while a resource, come under the Logistics
Section. Communications follow need, so personnel who assist in
communications must FIRST understand the organization. Than,they
are better equipped to understand the flow of communications.
The examples used here, while fire oriented, apply equally to
other events with modifications as appropriate.

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