How did the National Incident Command System perform during Hurricane Katrina?
Dr Arnold M Howitt, Executive Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA The US, which committed to a National Incident Command System (NIMS) in 2002 as the template for all emergency disciplines and agencies, nonetheless had decidedly suboptimal results in the response to Hurricane Katrina. Has NIMS fallen badly short overall as a template for emergency response? Are there missing elements? Or has the implementation process been flawed? Gold, Silver and Bronze Command at the Buncefield oil terminal fire Assistant Chief Constable Simon Parr, Hertfordshire Constabulary, UK In the UK, the Gold, Silver and Bronze command structure is used by the emergency services to try to make sense of the potential chaos of a major incident through defining what happens at the strategic, tactical and operational levels of the emergency response. This presentation will look at the multitude of command issues that arose during the
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