18. Which Incident Type requires regional or national resources, all Command and General Staff positions are activated, branches are activated, personnel may exceed 500 per operational period, and a disaster declaration may occur?

The correct answer is: Type I Incident type.

Explanation:

In the USA, in response to different types of emergency conditions, which may arise due to natural or environmental or man-made reasons, an Incident Management Team is set up. The major purpose of this Incident Management Team is to take charge of the emergency situation and promptly act to provide immediate redress to the people in distress and restrict the spread of the cause for the emergency. The various kinds of emergencies which are looked after by the Incident Management Team are, situations of fire, tornado, flood, earthquake, tsunami, leakage of poisonous and hazardous chemicals from chemical plants and others. The Incident Management Team are divided into five categories depending upon the area of the region under their jurisdiction. Type 5 Incident Management Team looks after the village and town level emergencies. Type 4 Incident Management Team looks after the City and District level emergencies. Type 3 Incident Management Team looks after the State and Metropolitan region level emergencies. Type 2 Incident Management Team looks after small scale National and State level emergencies. Type 1 Incident Management Team looks after large scale National and State level emergencies. In the given question, both national and regional resources are deployed, Command and General Staff positions are activated and more than 500 persons are deployed per operational period to mitigate the emergency situation. This is an example of Type 1 Incident Management Type.