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Add elements (types) to the incident

For more complex incidents, you can locate and characterize separate components, called elements, within a single incident. Groupings of specific incident elements are referred to as incident types.

An incident can have more than one type, and each type can have its own location, visual representation, weather conditions, and guidance associated with it.

Note:

Resources and operational roles are only associated with the parent incident, and cannot be broken out for each element (type).
You must have purchased FH Mobile Response Premium to work with incident types in FH Mobile Response. For information on upgrading from FH Mobile Response Basic to Premium, contact your FH sales representative.

(If an incident is not already open) Open an incident, as described in Open an incident.

Click the incident's Types sub-tab.

The incident's Types sub-tab appears.

Note: If the Types sub-tab does not appear, it may be hidden through a configuration setting in FH Mobile Response. Information on displaying or hiding the Summary sub-tab is available in Display or hide incident sub-tabs.

If the incident is automatically created from a CAD system dispatch, the Types sub-tab is automatically populated with information from the dispatch, and each element (type) in the incident appears on its own sub-tab beneath the Types sub-tab.

Example: On the Types sub-tab below, there are two elements (alarms and hazardous materials) defined for incident 3025. These elements are individually represented on the Alarms and Fixed Storage HazMat (Agent Known) sub-tabs.

If you create an incident manually, the first time you click the Types sub-tab, a new type is added by default, and the All Hazards sub-tab appears beneath theTypes sub-tab.

Information on manually creating an incident is available in Add an incident manually and in Create an incident from a template.

Note: At the bottom of the sub-tab, under Navigate, the Previous Page and Next Page icons both activate. Depending on the type of element you are working with, there may be multiple pages of information to view or define. You can use these icons to move backward and forward through the pages of the element, to reach the pertinent field you want to specify.

On the right side of the pane, click Add New Type.

Under the Types sub-tab, the All Hazards sub-tab appears.
From the row of icons on the sub-tab, click the icon that represents the element you want to add to the incident.

Example: Click Unknown or General Incident, Fire, Hazardous Materials, Medical, and so forth.

The (All Hazards) sub-tab is renamed according to the element icon you selected.

If you clicked General or Unknown Incident, the Type Summary screen appears on the sub-tab.

If you clicked one of the other element icons, more icons appear to so that you can further identify the type of element.

(If additional icons appear) Click the icon for the element you want to identify for the incident.

Note: You will use the icons that appeared to continue defining the element you are adding to the incident. The Type Summary screen eventually appears, indicating the end of the element definition process.

Medical

The (All Hazards) sub-tab is renamed Medical, and the sub-tab updates to display different types of medical circumstances.

Click the icon that represents the medical situation you are defining for the element.

The Type Summary screen appears on the sub-tab.

Natural Disaster

The (All Hazards) sub-tab is renamed Natural Disaster, and the sub-tab updates to display different types of natural disasters.

Natural disaster element definition hierarchy

Click the icon representing the natural disaster you are defining for the element.

If you clicked Blackout, the Type Summary screen appears on the sub-tab.

If you clicked one of the other icons, the Natural Disaster sub-tab is renamed with the icon's name, and more icons appear so that you can further identify the type of disaster it is.
(If additional icons appear) Continue clicking the appropriate icons as they appear on the sub-tab, to identify the natural disaster you are adding to the incident, until the Type Summary screen appears on the tab.

Search and Tech. Rescue

The (All Hazards) sub-tab is renamed Search and Tech. Rescue, and the sub-tab updates to display different types of search and rescue scenario.

Click the icon representing the search and tech rescue you are defining for the element.

The Type Summary screen appears on the sub-tab.

Fill in the information needed in the Type Summary screen.