Southeast Wisconsin Incident Management Team

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The SEW IMT provides personnel who are qualified, trained, organized, equipped, and prepared to support a local response to a major emergency, exercise or a special event. This support can be in an advisory/assistant role or a member of the Incident Command Structure or Emergency Operations Center (EOC). The team will remain flexible, scalable and fluid in meeting the needs of local requesting agencies; be they single resources or the entire team. The team uses the principles of the Incident Command System, in accordance with the National Incident Management System (NIMS) as prescribed in HSPD-5 and HSPD-8 and the National Preparedness System (NPS) as described in PPD-8.

Members are highly trained and experienced emergency personnel of command staff rank who have a long history of managing major emergencies, events and disasters. All of the 40+ team members are volunteers, many of whom come from full-time Police, Fire, Public Health, Emergency Management and other public safety entities.

• No members are paid for their participation in the team.
• IMT will not assume command; responsibility for final decisions belongs to the municipality.
• IMT is an advisory entity; the goal is to facilitate effective incident management.