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Nevermind the Justice League, make way for the Pitkin County Incident Management Team (PCIMT). PCIMT, under the direction of the Pitkin County sheriff, was established to organize and support the ...

Appropriate management of an incident begins with the incident size-up. The information we obtain from dispatch, performing a 360, radio reports from crews already on scene, reading smoke, occupants ...

Mobile Emergency Response Team are on location at the Hazard Area Command Center providing assistance in local flood response in Hazard, Kentucky, on July 30, 2022. (Robert Kaufmann/FEMA) FEMA has ...

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Suchi Rudra is a writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, BBC and Vice, among other publications. Emergency situations are simply a part of life, but schools now have a wider range of ...

The Rocky Mountain Complex Incident Management Team Two (RMA CIMT2) assumed command of the Spring Creek Fire near Parachute early Wednesday morning. The fire, which has been burning since Saturday ...

The CalWood Fire is still 10,105 acres and 76% contained after snow earlier this week helped slow the fire’s growth. The Rocky Mountain Incident Management Team Black this evening transferred command ...

Editor's note: A previous version of this article stated that the Rocky Mountain Type 1 Incident Management Team was in command of the Storm King fire. A Type 1 team from California was in command.

When her daughters were younger, Debbie Beard would pick them up regularly from school. Self-described as “always the late mom,” she was more likely one of several moms who didn’t get their children ...

The Rocky Mountain Complex Incident Management Team Two (RMA CIMT2) assumed command of the Spring Creek Fire near Parachute early Wednesday morning. The fire, which has been burning since Saturday ...