Question

how can the National Response Plan interacts with NIMS (use Hurricane Sandy to illustrate how the NRP worked and how it interacted with NIMS).

Answer 1

NRP(National response plan): it a concerted national effort to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States; reduce America's vulnerability to terrorism, major disasters, and other emergencies; and minimize the damage and recover from attacks, major disasters, and other emergencies that occur.

NIMS(National incident Management system): it provides a nationwide template enabling Federal, State, local, and tribal governments and private-sector and nongovernmental organizations to work together effectively and efficiently to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from domestic incidents regardless of cause, size, or complexity.

Interaction between NRP and NIMS with relation to Hurricane:

The implementation of a National Response Plan (NRP), predicated on a new National Incident Management System (NIMS), that aligns the patchwork of Federal special-purpose incident management and emergency response plans into an effective and efficient structure. Together, the NRP and the NIMS integrate the capabilities and resources of various governmental jurisdictions, incident management and emergency response disciplines, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and the private sector into a cohesive, coordinated, and seamless national framework for domestic incident management.

The NRP, using the NIMS, establishes mechanisms to:

• Maximize the integration of incident-related prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery activities;
• Improve coordination and integration of Federal, State, local, tribal, regional, private-sector, and nongovernmental organization partners;
• Maximize efficient utilization of resources needed for effective incident management and Critical Infrastructure/Key Resources (CI/KR) protection and restoration;
• Improve incident management communications and increase situational awareness across jurisdictions and between the public and private sectors;
• Facilitate emergency mutual aid and Federal emergency support to State, local, and tribal governments;
• Facilitate Federal-to-Federal interaction and emergency support;
• Provide a proactive and integrated Federal response to catastrophic events; and
• Address linkages to other Federal incident management and emergency response plans developed for specific types of incidents or hazards.

Interaction between NRP and NIMS with relation to Hurricane:

Emergency Management cycle

The structure for NRP coordination is based on the NIMS construct: ICS/Unified Command on-scene supported by an Area Command (if needed), multiagency coordination centers, and multiagency coordination entities.

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