If your incident does require multiple evacuations, it may trigger the need for a Joint Information Center. A JIC is a co-located group of representatives from agencies and organizations involved in an incident who are designated to manage public information needs.
A JIC provides the means for conducting incident communications during emergency responses and other situations in which several organizations need to collaborate to provide timely, useful and accurate information to the public and other stakeholders.
Joint Information Center (JIC) Guide (File of Documents) – is a zip file containing all of the documents published by the National Response Team in 2005 to support emergency response communications. This file contains a guide, a manual and several appendices. It should be noted here that there are some formatting errors in the manual, but the information is complete. Attempts to find another digital copy of this document have, so far, been unsuccessful. But we’ll keep trying. For those PIOs who have participated in a JIC or who think they might, this document is well worth reviewing.
