Resource management during long-term response operations

Large-scale incident

Actions taken during or immediately after a disaster in order to save lives, reduce health impacts, ensure public safety and meet the basic subsistence needs of the people affected.

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requires a coordinated effort across multiple agencies and jurisdictions to know, in real time the availability, the location and status of all resources, and to anticipate timelines for delivery. Agencies rely on different techniques and tools to track their resources, therefore, even if it might be clear what one agency has available, there is no ability to obtain a holistic picture for incident command. There is a limited ability, to determine the status of request for resources, the estimated time of arrival or destination location.Data integration field is mature (available products integrating data from different operating systems, database formats and programming languages), but is not applied to the integration of public safety resource databases.

References in the literature: this

Difference between the existing capabilities of responders and what was actually needed for effective and timely response.

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is extensively identified and detailed in the

Unstable condition involving an impending abrupt or significant change that requires urgent attention and action to protect life, assets, property or the environment.
 

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Management literature.