"Logistics, finance, plans, operations, safety, fire information. That's an incident management team."
Well, on a fire, if you think of a fire as like a piece of pie, the fire gets divided into geographical divisions. They're usually done by geographical boundaries, so that when people are out on the ground or looking at a map, it's a real logical place to break one division to another. And so you might have seven or eight divisions on a large fire, but with an incident management team there's different parts to a team. There's a common leader. The leader is the incident commander. And then there's a person that manages all of finance, with a lot of help, a lot of folks helping. Finance. Logistics. Operations, which is all the divisions. And the air operation falls under operations. And then there's the planning section. They put out an incident action plan, or a plan of work, what we're going to do, what everybody's going to do, a written plan, so that everybody starts the day with a written plan. Have I left anybody out? Fire information. When you were talking with Ken, real key part of an incident management team: fire information shares the information on the incident with everyone. And then safety. There's a person called the safety officer in charge of safety. They have many safety officers out on the line working for them, but safety's a big part of it. Have I left anyone out? Logistics, finance, plans, operations, safety, fire information. That's an incident management team.