EMC019 ICS Staff 
To:   Emergency Communications Units - Information Bulletin
By:   Auxiliary Communications Service (ACS), the volunteer
      communications reserve of the State of California 
      Governor's Office of Emergency Services

The GENERAL STAFF of incident management personnel consists
of the: Incident Commander, Operations Chief, Planning Chief,
Logistics Chief and Finance Chief. 

The COMMAND STAFF (assists the Incident Commander) consists of
the Information Officer, Safety Officer and the Liaison Officer. 

The Information Officer develops information regarding incident
cause, size, current situation, resources committed and other
matters of general interest. The IO (sometimes called PIO) is
the point of contact with the Media directly from the incident.

The Liaison Officer is the person responsible for interacting with
representatives from assisting and cooperating agencies. This
position is the single point of contact for representatives from
other agencies. In a single command structure the representatives
from assisting agencies would coordinate through the Liaison
Officer. Under a Unified Command structure, representatives from
agencies NOT involved in the unified command would coordinate
through the Liaison Officer. Agency representatives assigned
to an incident should have authority to speak on all matters for
their agency.

The Safety Officer assesses hazardous and unsafe situations and
develoops measures for assuring personnel safety. This Officer
should have emergency authority to stop and or/prevent unsafe
acts. Under a unified command structure, a single Safety Officer 
would be designated. Assistants may be required and may be
assigned from other agencies or departments making up the unified
command. 

Meanwhile, at the fire, the all out air assault at the marshy area
outside of the city stopped the raging fire storm. The units have
been demobilized and are returning to their home bases, tired but
successful in yet another cooperative incident response with the
Incident Command System. One that provided the means for people
from various modalities, agencies and jurisdictions to function
as a unified function.

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