Incident Command System/Related Articles

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Emergency management [r]: Preparation and response to natural disasters, accidents, and deliberate violence at both the routine local level and when local resources are overwhelmed ^[e]
Emergency medical service [r]: The system of field medical support from an incident of injury or disease, to activation of the emergency service, to field and in-transit stabilization, until handoff to definitive medical care ^[e]
Firefighting [r]: The act of extinguishing dangerous fires. ^[e]
Law enforcement [r]: Add brief definition or description
Natural disaster [r]: Add brief definition or description

Acute radiation syndrome [r]: Disease or death caused by whole-body irradiation, over a short period of time, with a significant quantity of penetrating radiation ^[e]
Biological weapon [r]: Living organisms, or substances produced by living organisms, used as weapons to produce death or disease in human or agricultural populations ^[e]
Chemical weapon [r]: Add brief definition or description
Epidemic [r]: Sudden increase in the incidence of a disease ^[e]
Fire [r]: The rapid oxidation of a combustible material releasing heat, light, and various reaction products such as carbon dioxide and water. ^[e]
Flood [r]: Add brief definition or description
Hazardous material [r]: Add brief definition or description
Hurricane [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Hurricane (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
Triage [r]: The process of sorting victims of disease or violence, so the greatest number can be helped with the available resources, and treatment prioritized to have the best chance of preserving life. ^[e]
Radiological weapon [r]: Add brief definition or description