The National Capital Region Incident Management Team (NCR-IMT) is an All-Hazards regional team whose members come from local, state, and federal organizations in the Washington, DC area and work in various disciplines. Due to the threat of both natural and manmade disasters, the NCR-IMT is comprised of members from a cross section of agencies including Emergency Management, EMS, Fire, Law Enforcement, Public Health and Public Works.

This cross section of experience comes from the NCR jurisdictions, which strengthens performance and maintains important professional relationships during the various multi-jurisdictional incidents/events.  As such these relationships have proven crucial in the successful outcomes of several incident/events; of which some have been of national significance.

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The Team supports local and state mutual aid requests. The team also responds to Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) requests that are sent out nationally to qualified teams who can then apply and be selected by the requesting jurisdiction. Being an All Hazards Team means that the NCR-IMT is capable responding to a variety of incidents of both an emergent and planned nature.

 

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The participating jurisdictions are: 

• District of Columbia 

• Montgomery County - MD

• Prince Georges County - MD

• Charles County - MD

• City of Alexandria - VA

• Arlington County  - VA

• City of Fairfax - VA

• Fairfax County - VA

• Loudoun County - VA

• Prince William County - VA

• City of Manassas - VA

• Stafford County - VA

 

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The NCR-IMT can assist with command and control of and support for:

• natural disasters such as fires, hurricanes, floods, and tornadoes

• manmade disasters such as terrorist attacks, hazardous materials incidents, civil unrest, transportation incidents and public health emergencies (pandemics)

• large scale planned events.

 

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The NCR-IMT currently has approximately 115 team members, many are qualified in multiple positions to AHIMTA (All Hazards Incident Management Team Association) standards. The Team is comprised of Command and General Staff (Incident Command, Safety, Public Information, Liaison), Planning, Logistics, Finance, and Operations.

 

To ensure the IMT meets succession planning needs of the future, all team members undergo the training and certification process to qualify in a position. The Team meets quarterly and hosts several workshops and annual full-scale drills to exercise subject matter expertise, test applicable technologies, help qualify new members, and add qualifications and currency to longer term members.

Funding for training and equipment currently comes exclusively from grants. The team has both short, and long-team caches which are equipped based on the number of personnel deployed and the situation being responded to. This includes an operations trailer with a generator, several vehicles, and materials and supplies designed to allow self-sufficiency for up to 30 people for 14 day deployments. This allows multiple teams to deploy simultaneously across the region.  This redundancy ensures continued coverage for the National Capital Region regardless of the team’s deployment status.

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The NCR-IMT was formed in 2004 as a result of the attacks on 9-11-2001, and subsequent national level natural disasters. The team is managed by a program manager who reports to the Steering Committee which is represented by a member from each participating jurisdiction that provides strategic direction. There are currently 13 participating agencies among the COG.

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