Incident Management Teams have been established to organize and support the local Incident Commander in the management of the State’s most serious, complex and costly incidents. Incidents will be managed in a safe and economical manner taking into consideration incident objectives, resource values, as well as social, environmental and other issues. All activities will be conducted in a manner that ensures the safety of all personnel and the general public.
History of ICS (pdf)
Presentations
IMT Type II Guidelines (pdf)
IMT Type III Guidelines (pdf)
PHOTOS
Deployments
Plans (IAP)
How to Join a multi-disciplined interagency type 3 team
SOP
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Activation Procedures
Incident Management Teams have been established to organize and support the local Incident Commander in the management of the State’s most serious, complex and costly incidents. Incidents will be managed in a safe and economical manner taking into consideration incident objectives, resource values, as well as social, environmental and other issues. All activities will be conducted in a manner that ensures the safety of all personnel and the general public.
Type III IMTs are multi-agency/multi-jurisdiction teams used for extended incidents that are formed and managed at the regional level. They are deployed as a team of 10-20 trained personnel to support major and/or complex incidents requiring a significant number of local, regional, and state resources, and incidents that extend into multiple operational periods and require a written IAP. Type III IMTs may be utilized at incidents such as a tornado touchdown, earthquake, flood, CBRNE events, or multi-day hostage/standoff situation, or at planned mass-gathering events. Type III teams may initially manage larger, more complex incidents prior to arrival of and transition to a Type 2 or Type 1 IMT. (source, http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/fireservice/subjects/incident/imt/imt-about.shtm)
Type II IMTs are self-contained, all-hazard or wildland teams recognized at the National and State level and are coordinated through the State. All personnel meet the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) training regimen at the Type 2 level for their specific position. They are deployed as a team of 20-35 to support incidents of regional significance and other incidents requiring a large number of local, regional, state, and national resources. This includes incidents where Operations Section personnel approach 200 per operational period and total incident personnel approach 500. (source, http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/fireservice/subjects/incident/imt/imt-about.shtm)
Jurisdictions requesting assistance will follow procedures below to request a regional team. If a regional team is unavailable or the incident requires a Type II IMT, jurisdictions then request a state level team.
CALL Up Procedure
Regional Type III All Hazard Incident Management Teams
- The Incident Commander can contact their regional team directly or the Incident Commander or other authorized representative can request IMT assistance from their County EM Director or local dispatch center.
- The County EM Director will identify the Regional IMT and make contact with the corresponding coordinator. If the Regional IMT is not available, the County EM Director will contact SC Warning Point at 803-737-8500 to locate an available team. If no regional teams are available, see procedures below to request a State level team.
- After the County EM Director has successfully contacted the Regional IMT Coordinator, the County EM Director will alert the SC Warning Point of the activation.
- SC Warning Point will then notify the SCEMD Director, Duty Officer and the SC Forestry Commission’s Duty Officer through (SCFC) Dispatch, 800-777-3473, of the activation.
- The SCFC’s IMT Coordinator will contact all other Regional IMT Coordinators and inform them of the activation.
- The SC Warning Point will notify all County EM Directors of the activation via email or text message.
- The IMT will make contact with the requesting agency/jurisdiction and directly coordinate the response.
- Individual IMT members are responsible to obtain approval from their supervisor to deploy.
State Level Type II Incident Management Teams
- All requests for the SC Forestry Commission (SCFC) Incident Management Teams (IMT) will be made through SCEMD.
- The Incident Commander or other authorized representative will request IMT assistance from their County EM Director or local dispatch center.
- The County EM Director will call the SC Warning Point, 803-737-8500 and initiate the request.
- The SC Warning Point will contact the SCEMD Director and Duty Officer who will contact the SCFC Dispatch Center, 800-777-3473, who will notify the SCFC Duty Officer to coordinate the activation.
- In the event that the SCFC IMT is not available, the SCFC Duty Officer will, upon approval of the requesting jurisdiction, request an IMT through the Southeastern States Forest Fire Compact. The requesting jurisdiction will be responsible for all costs associated with out-of-state resources.
- The IMT will make contact with the requesting agency/jurisdiction and directly coordinate the response.
- SC Warning Point will notify all County EM Directors of activation via email or text message.
CONTACTS
SCFC IMT Coordinator
- point of contact for all the Incident Management Teams in South Carolina
Steve Moore
Incident Management Team Coordinator
SC Forestry Commission
PO Box 21707
Columbia, SC 29221
Office: 803-896-8854
Cell: 803-360-6956
smoore@forestry.state.sc.us
Point of Contact For Type 2 State IMT
Mike Bozzo
Jonathan Calore
Point of Contact For Type 3 State IMT
Mike Ney
Host Point of Contact For Type 3 IMT
Pee Dee Team
Dusty Owens
Florence County EMD Director
6719 Friendfield Road
P.O. Box 278
Effingham, South Carolina 29541
(843) 669-3911
dowens@fcemd.org
Mike Puckett
mpuckett@fcemd.org
Lowcounty Team
Ronny Bryant
Battalion Chief
Summerville Fire Dept
300 West 2nd North St.
Summerville, SC 29483
(843) 873-5107
rbryant@summervillesc.gov
Midlands Team
Sgt. Garry Rozier
Chief Pilot
Lexington County Sheriff's Department
521 Gibson Road
Lexington, SC 29072
803-785-2425
grozier@lex-co.com
Upstate Team
Randy Bratcher
Anderson City Assistant Fire Chief
400 S. McDuffie
Anderson, SC 29624
(864) 844-1391
rbratcher@cityofandersonsc.com