NET Incident Command System (ICS) Forms: Difference between revisions

The Damage Assessment Form is the most essential form in a volunteer’s kit. A volunteer uses the form to record damage observed in a neighborhood (such as fires, utility hazards, structural damage, injuries and casualties, and available access) while moving through the area to the NET Staging Area. Upon arriving at the NET Staging Area, the volunteer turns the Damage Assessment Form in to the Incident Team Leader. The ITL then uses all the Damage Assessment Forms turned in to prioritize action plans (reflected on [https://volunteerpdx.net/index.php/NET_Incident_Command_System_(ICS)_Forms#NET_Form_4:_Assignment_Briefing Form 4: Team Leader’s Assignment Tracking Log]).

Thanks to insight from drills and exercises, NET volunteers redesigned this form to facilitate faster radio communications. Those redesigns are reflected below in Forms 1b-1, 1b-2, and 1c. Use of these versions of the forms are ''optional'' and to the discretion of an ITL. If a volunteer does not feel certain which NET Form 1 to use, just use the original (highlighted in yellow in the table below).

As noted to the left, volunteers can download a blank version of this form as well as a "mock" filled out version of the form to demonstrate how volunteers should complete the form.  

|Volunteers may use this version in place of '''''NET ICS Form 1: Damage Assessment''''' if their Incident Team Leader approves.

This alternative offers offers similar categories of damage as the original Form 1 but they are represented by rows instead of columns. It has a column for tallying each type of damage and a column for recording the addresses where the damage was observed.

This version may be an appropriate choice where there appears to be many cases of certain types of damage and the locations of such damage needs to be recorded quickly. For example, flooding created by a leaking water main.

''You can find more detailed instructions on using Form 1b [https://hcpaw.portlandoregon.gov/u/-fHcVBBx3Efr8dxX/03cbe77b-c78d-4e0f-91c8-485a0f4e4a64?l HERE], as well as a video embed on the right side of this page. Designed by NET Radio Training Liaisons, released 2022.09.29.''

|Volunteers may use this version in place of '''''NET ICS Form 1: Damage Assessment''''' if their Incident Team Leader approves.

Each row represents a dwelling and the columns represent categories of potential problems. It has a row at the bottom for totaling the number of each type of problem observed.

This version might be the better choice when a team is making a visual inspection of a series of dwellings and want to record their assessment of each dwelling separately.

|Form 1c is not an alternative version of '''''NET ICS Form 1: Damage Assessment''''', but an accessory. It can be used to:

* Consolidate the information from multiple individuals that have reported on Form 1Bs, creating a neighborhood-wide summary of the situation.  

|This is a Spanish language version of the original '''''CERT ICS Form 1: Damage Assessment''''', released by Los Angeles CERT. This Spanish version will be replaced with the NET version after it is translated.

|The original '''''CERT ICS Form 1: Damage Assessment.''''' NETs should avoid using this form unless specific circumstances make it necessary (e.g. embedding with a CERT that still uses this version).