# Presentation: 722246

## 2008 National Training & Exercise ConferenceIncident Management Team (IMT) Developmentand ICS Position Specific Training Courses

**Bill Campbell**
**Program Manager**
**New York State Incident Management Team (IMT) Program**

## All Hazards  Type 2 IMT

**New York State**

***All Hazards  Type 2 IMT***

**Incident  Management  Team**

## Objectives: 

**Outline the History and Development of the New York State Incident Management Team**
**Discuss situations when an IMT may be used and list incidents / events that the NYS IMT has responded to as a Team or has supported with single resource overhead personnel. **
**Briefly discuss the future of the New York State Incident Management Team Program.**

## NYS Incident Management  Team History & Development

**1996:  Governor Pataki signed Executive Order No. 26 ****	****establishing NIIMS ICS as the State’s standard ****	****command and control system**
**1997:  Initiate training for “All Hazards” ICS Position ****	****Specific Courses based on the NWCG “S” courses**
**2004:  NYS Disaster Preparedness Commission (DPC) ****	****authorizes development of a State IMT, comprised ****	****of state and local agency personnel**
**April 2004:  Agencies nominate IMT members.**
**May 2004:  S-420 “Command and General Staff” training ****	****	****        completed for 24 nominees.**

## Coursework completed by NYS IMT

**ICS 100, 200, 300, 400, 401 and 402**
**S-400 Incident Commander**
**S-404 Safety Officer**
**S-430 Operations Section Chief**
**S-440 Planning Section Chief**
**S-348 Resource Unit Leader**
**S-347 Demobilization Unit Leader**
**S-346 Situation Unit Leader**

## Coursework completed by NYS IMT

**S-450 Logistics Section Chief**
**S-354 Facilities Unit Leader**
**S-355 Ground Support Unit Leader**
**S-356 Supply Unit Leader**
**S-358 Communications Unit Leader**
**S-420 Command and General Staff Course**

## Qualification and Certification Process

**ICS-NTC (I-100 through I–400)**
**ICS Position Specific Training**
**Initiate (All-Risk) Task Book for position**
**Complete S-420 Command and General Staff Course**
**Participate in exercises  **
**Field Training Assignment or “shadowing” with a National Type 1 or 2 Incident Management Team**

##  Quote from After Action Report (AAR)2004 hurricane season in Florida

**“...****there is a huge difference between individuals responding with specific training, and people with the same or greater level of training responding as a team...” **

## Utilization of NYS IMT

**Provide ICS assistance to local governments**
**Manage State response to improve coordination **
**Support State lead agency operations with resources coordination and overhead personnel**
**Interface with pro-active federal actions to improve coordination and support to local governments**

## NYS IMT Deployments (May 2004 – Present)

**Red August Fires – Adirondack Mountains**
**Capsize of Stellamare (256’ Ship) – Port of Albany**
**“****Orange Alert” - New Years Eve**
**Lost Child Search - Town of Grafton, Rensselaer County**
**Chronic Wasting Disease – Oneida County**
**Republican National Convention – New York City**
**Florida Hurricane Response* – 2004 ****(Charlie, Frances, & Ivan)**
**Interstate 87 Landslide – Town of Bolton, Warren County**

## NYS IMT Deployments(May 2004 – Present continued)

**Hadlock Dam Failure – Town of Fort Ann, Washington County**
**Bridge Failure – Albany / Rensselaer Counties**
**Hurricane Dennis* - Santa Rosa County, Florida**
**Hurricane Katrina* – Jackson Co., MS**
**Landslide – Columbia County**
**Severe Flooding* – Southern Tier of New York**
**Snow/Power Outage*–Erie Co. **
**Severe Flash Flooding – Delaware/Sullivan Counties**
**Overlooks Wildfire – Ulster County**
*** ****Indicates a Presidentially declared disaster **

## Incident Management TeamAll-Risk Operations and Management StudyUniversity of Connecticut – Space Shuttle Columbia Recovery

**“****inter-agency, inter-disciplinary involvement assembles a wider scope of strengths to give the team greater depth and potential for success”**
**“****incorporation of technical experts allows a “generic” IMT to be customized to the requirements of a particular incident response”  **

## Why the NYS IMT is Successful

**Emergency Management Specialists**
**Structural Fire and Rescue Specialists**
**Wildfire & Incident Management Qualified (Red Card)**
**Law Enforcement Specialists**
**Search and Rescue Specialists (Urban and  **
**Mass Casualty Specialists / Mass Fatality Specialists**
**Hazardous Materials and WMD Specialists**
**Environmental Specialists**
**Building Codes **
**Transportation & Maintenance Specialists**
**Interoperable communications capability**

## Future of New York State’s IMT Program

**Assign a full-time program manager to lead the State’s IMT Program**
**Establish the “NYS Incident Management Coordination Group” comprised of representatives from various stakeholder organizations.  **
**Develop an “All-Hazards” Qualification Guide parallels the NWCG Qualifications Guide (PMS 310-1)**

## Future of New York State’s IMT Program

**Establish a New York State Incident Command Certification System**
**Develop or adopt “All-Hazards” ICS Position Task Books and a policy and procedure for their implementation**
**Develop “Model” Operational Procedures Guide for IMTs **
**Develop “sample” Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to be used by IMTs**

## Future of New York State’s IMT Program

**Conduct / participate in “Pilot” deliveries of the new ICS Position Specific training courses for the NYPD**
**Conduct two 5 day “All-Hazard” IMT Workshops (an S-320 level course) at the New York Wildfire & Incident Management Academy (Oct. 24 – Nov. 2, 2008)**
**Conduct / participate in IMT Exercises **
**Participate in Field Training assignments or “shadowing” with Type I or II IMTs**

## Questions ???For More Information, Contact:

**Bill Campbell**
**Program Manager **
**New York State Incident Management Team Program**
**New York State Emergency Management Office**
**(518) 292-2350**
**William.Campbell@semo.state.ny.us**