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<br /> 2.05 Command: The act or directing and or controlling by virtue of explicit legal, agency or
<br /> delegated authority. The term"Command"may also refer to the Incident Commander.
<br /> 2.06 Emergency: Any incident, whether natural or manmade,that requires responsive action to
<br /> protect life or property. Under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act,
<br /> an emergency means any occasion or instance for which, in the determination of the President,
<br /> federal assistance is needed to supplement state and local efforts and capabilities to save lives and to
<br /> protect property and public health and safety or to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in any
<br /> part of the United States.
<br /> 2.07 Emergency Management: A subset of incident management, the coordination and integration
<br /> of all activities necessary to build, sustain and improve the capability to prepare for,protect against,
<br /> respond to, recover from or mitigate against threatened or actual natural disasters, acts of terrorism
<br /> or other manmade disasters.
<br /> 2.08 Emergency Operations Center(EOC): The physical location at which the coordination of
<br /> information and resources to support incident management activities normally takes place. An EOC
<br /> may be a temporary facility or may be located in a more central or permanently established facility,
<br /> perhaps at a higher level of organization within a jurisdiction.
<br /> 2.09 Incident: An occurrence or event, natural or manmade, which requires a response to protect life
<br /> or property. Incidents can, for example, include major disasters, emergencies, terrorist attacks,
<br /> terrorist threats, civil unrest, wild land and urban fires, floods, hazardous materials spills, nuclear
<br /> accidents, aircraft accidents,earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, tropical storms,tsunamis, war-
<br /> related disasters,public health and medical emergencies and other occurrences requiring an
<br /> emergency response.
<br /> 2.10 Incident Command System(ICS): A standardized on-scene emergency management
<br /> construct specifically designed to provide for the adoption of an integrated organizational structure
<br /> that reflects the complexity and demands of single or multiple incidents, without being hindered by
<br /> jurisdictional boundaries. It is used for all kinds of emergencies and is applicable to small as well as
<br /> large and complex incidents.
<br /> 2.11 Local Emergency: The duly proclaimed existence of conditions of disaster or extreme peril to
<br /> the safety of persons and/or property within territorial limits of a county, city and county, or city
<br /> caused by such conditions as fire, flood, storm, epidemic,riot, drought, sudden and severe energy
<br /> shortage,plant or animal infestation or disease, earthquake, tsunami or other conditions which are
<br /> likely to be beyond the control of the services,personnel,equipment and facilities of that local
<br /> political subdivision to combat.
<br /> 2.12 Local Government: A county, municipality, city,town, township, local public authority,
<br /> school district, special district, intrastate district, council of governments (regardless of whether the
<br /> council of governments is incorporated as a nonprofit corporation under state law;)regional or
<br /> interstate government entity or agency or instrumentality of a local government; an Indian tribe or
<br /> authorized tribal entity, or in Alaska a Native Village or Alaska Regional Native Corporation; a rural
<br /> community, unincorporated town or village or other public entity. See Section 2 (10), Homeland
<br /> Security Act of 2002, P.L. 107-296, 116 Stat. 2135 (2002).
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