Federal Incident Response Support Team (FIRST) 3
Federal Incident Response Support Team (FIRST) 3 : "Per the National Response Plan, a quick and readily deployable Emergency Response Team providing on-scene support to the local incident command. The FIRST is a forward extension of the Emergency Response Team- Advanced (ERT-A) providing the ERT-A Team Leader and, after a Stafford Act Declaration, the Federal Coordinating Officer (FCO). FIRST has an Incident Command System (ICS) structure and each team has five permanent team members including a Team Leader, Operations Section Chief, Planning Section Chief, Logistics Section Chief, and a Communications Unit Leader. A State may chose to assign a person(s) to respond with the FIRST. Other Federal expertise may be assigned to augment the FIRST on an as-needed basis. The FIRST is considered a National Asset but is stationed in a FEMA Region and on a day-to-day basis reports to the Regional Response and Recovery (R&R) Division Director". (DHS, TCL, 2007, p. 205)
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