Utilize the drop-down list under Agency or Organization and select the appropriate agency for reported.
Enter the agencies or organizations contributing resources to the incident as responders, through mutual aid agreements. Indicate in the rows under Block 49 how many resources are assigned to the incident under each resource identified. These are listed with the number of resources on the top of the box, and the number of personnel associated with the resources on the bottom half of the box.
- Adding an agency to Block 49.
- Click Add Row to select agencies from the pop-up list. You must select each agency individually from the pop]up list. Multiple agency selections are not permitted.
- Click Submit to save each agency to Block 48. After adding an agency, the pop]up window automatically closes.
- Click Add Row to select agencies from the pop-up list. You must select each agency individually from the pop]up list. Multiple agency selections are not permitted.
- Deleting an agency from Block 49 that no longer has resources
- Select the agency row. The selected row changes color, such as the green shown in the example above for ORD.
- Click Delete Selected Rows. A pop-up window appears asking you to confirm the deletion of the selected agency. Click Ok or Cancel.
- Select the agency row. The selected row changes color, such as the green shown in the example above for ORD.
There are several unique agencies listed that require clarification:
- DOD: US Department of Defense. Selecting DOD is generic to any military unit or personnel, including National Guard, regular military, reserves, etc. However, there are separate military units listed for Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Air Force, Army Corps of Engineers, National Guard and Air National Guard.
- IA: Interagency Resources
- Crews comprised of multi-agency resources
- Resources ordered as interagency resources
- Individual agencies may be listed in Cooperating Agencies (Block 53).
- INTL: International Resources. These are any non U.S. resources.
- LGR and C&L: Used interchangeably by different agencies. Local Government and County and Local resources. These include municipal and county resources, including rural fire departments, fire protection districts, volunteer fire departments and townships.
- OES: Office of Emergency Services. State governmental agencies such as the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services.
- OTHR: Assisting agencies that do not fit into any other listed category.
- PRI: All private resources, such as contractors and citizen volunteers not affiliated with a formal organization. But it does not include federal CWN (call when needed) and AD (administratively determined) resources because these are always hired or contracted by an agency, and should be reported under that agency.
- ST: Generic state agency identifier. Any state resources that cannot be listed under another agency in the list. List these individual state agencies in Cooperating Agencies, Block 53.
NOTE:
- When you select an agency from the agency drop-down list, you must populate at least one resource or personnel field for that agency in Block 49 before you save the page. When you save the page, any agency with no resources or personnel assigned is deleted from the page.
- When you click Show/Hide Columns to select new resource types, any agency in Block 48 with no resources assigned is deleted. Be sure each agency listed in Block 48 has at least one resource and/or personnel assigned before adding new resource types to Block 49.