lets cover some lingo from the USA FD = fire department
EMA = emergency management agency - used to be called Civil Defense - now sometimes called Homeland Defense Agency FD deals with normal everyday emergencies EMA deals with large scale incidents / disaster EMA primarily deals with disaster by writing disaster plans - in USA cities - EMA might have a staff of 10 people and they operate 1 EOC and 1 mobile command post EOC = emergency operations center = 1 room where the police chief and the fire chief and the ambulance chief can sit down and coordinate the response to a disaster -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/massfire/CAFXWwKZapv8HNsQWq4ngrj-je6MP2vXF86WcDOLWqyPzc-2A2A%40mail.gmail.com.
