Nims 5 year Plan **

LETTERS: NIMS Five Year Plan Means ARES Needs ICS/NIMS

Certifications

For those amateurs who are still on the fence about the importance of

advanced training and ICS/NIMS requirements, the draft release of the

Five Year NIMS Training Plan makes for interesting reading. One point

that is made very clearly is that "access to future national

incidents will be restricted to those who have met the mandatory

requirements." Within the next few years, you simply won't be able to

obtain credentials for access without proof of completion of required

instruction.

Also, having volunteers who have not completed ICS/NIMS training may

already be adversely affecting your served agencies ability to obtain

grant money. And, as one of my instructors pointed out to us, "The

Incident Command System wasn't developed by a bunch of egg-heads in

Washington. It was developed on the ground by wilderness firefighters

in California. It actually works!"

ARES leadership also needs to get comfortable with resource typing,

and to start integrating that into their databases. We need to be

prepared to help our served agencies easily fit amateur radio into

their planning and funding requests, and the easiest way to do that

is to resource type our operators and equipment. The draft report is

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