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.