There are no NIMS courses -- there are a few FEMA courses ABOUT NIMS

Hello Tom,

   Wow, you sure seem to be anti FEMA. Of course that is a popular position now. I think that "FEMA Independent Study Program: IS-700 National Incident Management System (NIMS), An Introduction" would qualify as an NIMS course. But, of course you are right that NIMS is the overall system and that ICS is how that is applied. While I was attending the National Emergency Training Center (NETC is shared by the United States Fire Administration (USFA), the National Fire Academy (NFA), the Emergency Management Institute (EMI), the Field Personnel Operations Division, and the Satellite Procurement Office. All these components are part of FEMA, one of the four directorates in DHA) at Emittsburg, MD last summer that told us that NWCG, FEMA and others were working at finalizing the merging of the ICS courses so that when taught by Wildland fire group or by a FEMA trainer that the students would receive the same basic material.

   You say "when the whole idea of emergency management training was put under the
National Fire Academy". The NETC EMI Resident Courses catalog and application are still showing courses being taught by FEMA. So are you saying that these will change and start being taught by NFA staff?

 

Thanks,

Dave N0EOP