Ice
Search and Rescue Team (Water Rescue Team; Public Safety Dive Team)
Team locates and rescues individuals trapped under ice-capped
water.
Illumination Unit (Lighting
Plant)
A portable light-generating unit capable of providing three
to six lights of 500 watts each with extension cords from
500 feet to 1,000 feet to provide specified level of illumination
capacity.
Incident
Management Team
A command team comprised of the Incident
Commander (IC), appropriate command, and general
staff personnel assigned to an incident. (Source: FIRESCOPE)
Incident
Management Team, Animal Protection
An Animal
Protection Incident Management Team, when deployed,
will asses the emergency situation and determine
the number of operational strike teams that will
be required for rescuing, transporting, and sheltering
of animals.
Incident
Management Team, Firefighting
An Incident
Management Team is an interagency organization under
the auspices of NWCG composed of the Incident Commander
(IC) and appropriate general and command staff personnel
assigned to an incident, trained and certified to
the Type I level. Type
I level personnel possess the highest level of training
available and are experienced in the management of
complex incidents.
Individual Assistance Disaster Assessment
Team
An Individual
Assistance Disaster Assessment Team is responsible for
providing expert assessments of the disaster situation
pertaining to claims for individual assistance and other
programs.
Individual Assistance Disaster Assessment
Team Leader
An Individual
Assistance Disaster Assessment Team Leader is the
individual responsible for leading the individual
assistance disaster assessment team and possesses
an administrative knowledge of Individual Assistance
areas. (See Individual Assistance Disaster Assessment
Team.)
In-House
Assets
or expertise specifically owned, possessed, directed, and/or
controlled by the responding entity.
Instrument Flight Rules (IFRs)
Set of rules, guidelines, and procedures that the Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA) has established for pilots
to operate aircraft in marginal weather conditions, usually
defined as ceilings below 1,000 feet/ visibility less than
3 miles.
Interagency
Buying Team, Firefighting
The Interagency
Wildland Fire Community supports a Buying Team. A
National Buying Team supports the procurement efforts
through the local administrative staff and is authorized
to procure a wide range of services, supplies, and
land and equipment rentals. In
addition, the buying team leader has the responsibility
of coordinating property accountability with the
supply unit leader.
International Medical Surgical
Response Team (IMSuRT), National Disaster Medical System
(NDMS)
An IMSuRT is a volunteer group of medical and nonmedical individuals,
usually from the same State or region of a State,
that has formed a response team under the guidance
of the NDMS and the State Department, and whose personnel
and equipment give it deployable medical and surgical
treatment capability, worldwide. It
is the only NDMS medical team with surgical operating
room capability. Full team consists of roughly 26 personnel,
which is a mix of physicians, nurses, medical technicians,
and allied personnel. See
Annex A: Federal Response Teams for more detailed information
on this Federal Resource.