Incident Command System

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Case Study: Hurricane Katrina

In August 2005, FEMA and the ICS system would be put to the test during Hurricane Katrina. On Saturday, August 27th, President Bush issued a Presidential Declaration for the Gulf Coast Region and FEMA positioned an unprecedented number of resources prior to Katrina’s landfall. These efforts exceeded any previous operation in the agency’s history. [11]

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