I just finished completing the 3rd National Incident Management System (NIMS) compliance course required of me by my organization, and it got me thinking about planning in general. There are a lot of ...

All municipal employees must receive National Incident Management Systems (NIMS) training for dealing with emergencies large and small under a federal mandate from the Department of Homeland Security.

Aside from the flood of obvious concerns involving the environmental and financial impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a frustration among some in the emergency ...