EMC212 RIMS Forms 3       For release 11/29/99

Continued from Bulletins 210 and 211: Form Illustration

An Event/Major Incident report FORM for an Operational
Area has the following items that are used to communicate
the situation in specific detail:
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Operational Area: XXXXXXXXXXXX
Region - OES (Fire and Law) in which the OA is located
1a. Overall Event Name (such as Westpoint Fire)
1b. Disaster Number
2.  Incident name (where an incident is related to a larger
    event)
3.  Event/Incident Type: (example: Wildfire)
4.  Date/Time of Event/Incident (such as 09/09/99 1630 hours
5.  Event/Incident Location: (example:
       a. Descriptive: Wildfire in XXXXX County has caused
       the evacuation of 138 people and 35 homes in the xxxx
       b. street
       c. City
	      d. Zip
       e. Map reference
       f.  Latitude: Longitude: Thomas Bros Page:  Grid:
6   Event/Incident Impact: (example, minor)
7.  Situation: (example, a fire of 20 acres plus is currently
    burning in xx in xx county 138 people, 9 homes
    evacuated. No reports of structures lost at this time. 
    YY of ZZ IS monitoring the situation and working 
    with jj.

Items 8-18 are in 3 columns in grid format with predetermined
color coding pop-up options. 
   The 3 columns are titled follows:
   Functional Area Impact   Status (a)      Remarks (b) 
  
8. Fire and Rescue: (Green - normal)
9. Law Enforcement: (Green - normal)
10 Care and Shelter (Yellow - No Mutual Aid required.
   Shelter is currently setup in xxxx church. County Social
   Services has opened it and will ask Red Cross to take over.)
11 Medical/Health (example: Green - normal)
12 Movement (         Green - normal)
13 Constr & Engr:    (Green - normal)
14 Utility           (Green - normal)
15 EOC Activated?     (No)
16 Mutual Aid Received in last 24 hours (No)
17 Mutual Aid needed in Next 24 hours (  No)
18 Critical Issues
19 Prognosis (3 choices: No Change, Worsening or Improving)
20 Reported by (name, agency, phone, Fax, Alternate number)
21 Date/time of THIS report
22 Person RECEIVING report (name, agency, phone, Fax, Alternate)
23 Additional Information (text format)
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Emergency Communicators will recognize that a computer system 
that uses forms like those indicated will be subject to loss
of the system should the telephone, electrical and electronic
systems that make the interconnections fail for any reason.

However, so long as those systems work, which has been in all
emergencies since its inception with just one short server
failure, the Response Information Management System does its
assignment extremely well. More importantly, it literally
saves countless hours of staff time that former telephone
systems had taken.

Where such systems are in active use, it should be apparent
that EMCOMM units need to have an ability to pass the SAME
data via radio and wireless systems so it can appear in
the same FINISHED FORM that the EOC personnel are accustomed
to handling. There should be no need to translate the data or
figure it out from an unfamiliar layout or form.

Continues, Bulletin 213