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... This Guide provides flexibility in how you define your response teams, allowing you to measure response for individual fire stations, entire departments, industry partners, multijurisdictional agreements, and so on. As an example, jurisdictions and providers may choose to share the financial and management burden of establishing, maintaining, and employing complex emergency response capabilities by integrating specific elements resident in multiple jurisdictions or providers into a strike team or task force, which can be task-organized, reinforced, and/or sustained depending upon the particular situation.
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... Defining Emergency Response Capability Tiers Table 2 identifies requirements for the emergency response capability tiers organized by different types of testing and response equipment, training, and sustainability. 12 A Guide for Assessing Community Emergency Response Needs and Capabilities for Hazardous Materials Releases Table 2.
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... . Assessing Emergency Response Capability 13
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... focused solely on Hazmat Entry Team versus complete Hazmat Response Capability required to manage casualties as well as conduct testing, monitoring, and sampling and (2) focused on National-level resources exceeding minimum standards (hence the addition of Baseline and Tier 1 capability sets)
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... . You may wish to include mutual-aid organizations in your assessment of your emergency response capabilities.
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