Incident management team

Incident Management Team (IMT) is a term used in the United States of America to refer to a group of trained personnel that responds to an emergency.

Although the incident management team concept was originally developed for wildfire response, it has been expended into what is now known as "All-Hazards Incident Management Team”.

[1] An AHIMT can respond to a wide range of emergencies, including fires, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunami, riots, spilling of hazardous materials, and other natural or human-caused incidents.In the United States, there are predominantly five types of incident management teams (IMTs).

Incident management starts as the smallest unit and escalates according to the size, scope and complexity of the emergency.

[2] An incident management team consists of five subsystems as follows:

A Type 2 Incident Management Team assumes management of a fire emergency.