NIMS Alert 							            


NA: 003-05
The NIMS Integration Center, Feb. 24, 2005
NIMS-Integration-Center@dhs.gov
202-646-3850

IS 700 NIMS Course Materials Available for Classroom Setting

IS 700 NIMS, An Introduction, is a Web-based awareness level course that 
explains NIMS components, concepts and principles. Although it is designed to be 
taken online as an interactive Web-course, course materials may be downloaded 
and used in a group or classroom setting. Answer sheets may be obtained from the 
Emergency Management Institute by calling the EMI Independent Study Office at 
301-447-1256. To obtain the IS700 course materials or take the course online go 
to http://training.fema.gov/emiweb/IS/is700.asp. 

More than 80,000 persons have now completed the NIMS Introductory course.  All 
together, course completions for Introduction to ICS for Federal Disaster 
Workers, Basic ICS for Federal Disaster Workers, the National Response Plan and 
the NIMS Introduction total 117,000 as of Feb. 20, 2005.