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' <br />n tho�y <br />i la (J <br />Fire Department <br />NATIONAL INCIDENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM <br />The National Incident Management System (NIMS) is a comprehensive <br />incident (emergency) response system developed by the Department <br />of Homeland Security at the request of the President. <br />NIMS integrates effective practices in emergency preparedness and <br />response into a comprehensive national framework for incident <br />management. NIMS will enable responders at all levels to work <br />together more effectively to manage domestic incidents no matter <br />what the cause, size or complexity. <br />Per Presidential directive, the Department of Homeland Security has <br />developed and issued HSPD- 5 <br />HSPD-5 REQUIRES ALL Federal departments and agencies to adopt <br />the National Incident Management System(NIMS) and to use it in <br />their individual domestic incident management and emergency <br />prevention, preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation <br />programs and activities, as well as in support of those actions taken <br />to assist State, Local, or tribal entities. The directive also requires <br />Federal departments and agencies to make adoption of the NIMS <br />by State, tribal, and local organizations a condition for Federal <br />preparedness assistance beginning in FY 2005. HSPD-5 requires <br />that if financial considerations of the federal government are to be <br />received by local government, that they must be NIMS compliant. <br />February 9, 2005 Governor Tim Pawlenty issued an executive order <br />establishing NIMS as the state standard for incident management. <br />3505 Silver Lake Road, St. Anthony, Minnesota 55418 @ wwwxi.saint-anthony.mn.us • (612) 782-3400 • FAX (612) 781-0594 <br />