Having read the material for weeks five and six as indicated in the Course Syllabus, along with the respective Weekly Course Lessons and the Weekly Course Announcement, research and select a recent man-made (technological), a natural, or a terror incident response scenario and write a clear and descriptive narrative that:
Provides an overview of the event and which summarizes how the Incident Command System (ICS) process was used. This means that you will need to choose your event based on those events where you can find information about how ICS was used in the event… In doing so and based on your research, clearly also indicate::
The history and inception of ICS; and
The ICS component organizational structure – to offer clarity on each of its five elements.
To be clear… the important part of the overview is about ICS, this should be the majority of your overview. A full page detailing background details of what happened in the incident, and then two sentences about ICS is clearly not going to be leading to a high grade…
Further discuss the extent to which the U.S. is prepared for dealing with catastrophic events such as acts of bio-terror and / or infectious pandemic outbreaks (Choose one type of catastrophic event) and discuss how ICS would be used to coordinate the response efforts, and maximize the efficiency of the response operations that are undertaken. Do not just simply restate the general benefits of ICS; use this as an opportunity to think specifically about a type of event that you discussed above and apply ICS to that. In other words, “tailor” the use of ICS to the type of event you chose above… You are free to postulate the means / methods by which you believe such natural events occur, or how manmade attacks could be carried out and how ICS might assist in mitigating both response needs and public consequences.
Research and investigation beyond those materials indicated in the course-ware will be required.
Your assignment must be properly formatted and cited using the most recent edition of the APA manual.
Your assignment should fall in the range of 3 (full) -5 (full) double-spaced pages of substantive text, not counting separate cover page and reference page material. Your writing can be longer, but it cannot be under the minimum indicated page-count for credit.
Do not simply list questions and respond – your work is intended to be a complete, integrative narrative that embodies an introduction, a body within which you respond to the targeted questions, and a summary and conclusion.
