National Incident Management System – AZ Dept. of Health Services Director's Blog

Emergency Drill Tests Response to Public Health Crisis

By Cara Christ|2017-02-13T09:31:17-07:00February 13th, 2017|Preparedness|

Our Health Emergency Operations Center activated last week as part of the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station annual emergency drill. Federal regulations mandate Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station and its emergency response partners conduct regular preparedness drills and exercises. During a public health emergency, the Health Emergency Operations Center activates to support state emergency management [...]

Incident Command Training

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:39-07:00July 15th, 2011|General|

With all the fire response activity this week- I thought I’d do a piece on the framework that we’re all using for our response activities. We use the National Incident Management System (NIMS) to guide and organize all of our responses because it provides a systematic, proactive structure with which to organize response activities. Many [...]