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When Help Arrives: Is Your Community Ready?

A complex fire event that threatens a local community can quickly overwhelm local resources.  If this occurs, it can necessitate the involvement of a regional or federal incident management team (IMT) that comes into the community to manage the fire.  These teams come with a wealth of resources, knowledge and experience in incident response.  However, each incident is different because communities are different.  In order for this outside assistance to be the most effective, they need help from the local community.

For several years now, our research team, Firechasers, has been asking the question, “How can IMTs work more effectively with local communities?”

Read more at: http://facnetwork.org/help-arrives-community-ready/