The Medical Unit is responsible for the effective and efficient provision of medical services to incident personnel.

The Medical Unit develops procedures for handling any major medical emergency involving incident personnel and developing the Incident Medical Plan (for incident personnel). This Medical Plan becomes part of the Incident Action Plan. The Medical Plan should provide:

• Specific information on medical assistance capabilities at incident locations.
• Potential hazardous areas or conditions.
• Off-incident medical assistance facilities and procedures for handling complex medical emergencies.
• In-processing of all paperwork related to injuries or deaths of incident assigned personnel.
• Coordination of personnel and mortuary affairs for incident personnel fatalities.