Patent ID: 8909189

Claim:
An incident response system comprising: a network; a plurality of local devices connected to said network, each local device being associated with a locale department; one or more computers connected to said network, said one or more computers including an operations center planning and administering day-to-day operations and emergency operations for said locale; and a plurality of mobile devices each associated with an agent of a locale department, each mobile device being assigned a role for responding to incidents by said operations center, said each mobile device including a likelihood table, an assigned region of interest, and a role model including attributes describing said assigned role, and connecting to said network individually when deployed, and whenever a direct network connection is unavailable to one or more deployed mobile devices, said deployed mobile devices connect wirelessly in an ad hoc peer-to-peer network organized hierarchically according to role, said one or more connecting to said network through peers and sharing information in a combined push/pull communication, all said deployed mobile devices returning to connecting to said network individually whenever a direct network connection becomes available to all.