Voices of Experience: Incident Command System (Continued)
Kristy Plourde, Emergency Management Specialist, U.S. Coast Guard
Kristy Plourde - VOE - Lesson 5 (mp3)
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Kristy Ploude, Emergency Management Specialist, U.S.Coast Guard
"You use NIMS and ICS and you organize yourself around this structure. It’s got the common language, its common command structure. You work out who is in the Unified Command, you know, and you work this all out, and so that’s what they did, and it was, you know, it’s not perfect because we’re not there yet, we’re getting there with how we organize ourselves, but the key is, is that: is it better than when we did it before? And that’s the bottom-line answer of that is that NIMS has helped us be better structured, have less duplication, be more organized and more efficient."