| Branch: Part of the Operations section having functional, geographical, or jurisdictional responsibility for major parts of the incident operations. As a rule, Branches are usually established when the number of Divisions or Groups exceed the recommended span of control (which is that any individual with incident management responsibilities this ranges from three to seven with five being the optimal number).
Branches are identified by the use of Roman Numerals, by function, or by jurisdictional name. The EMS Branch usually falls in this category. [4, 5] |