Acronyms & Terms
Glossary
Terminology used in the ASHER I.A.P., this exercise, and on the radio.
CCP ≠ CP
CCP (Casualty Collection Point) is a dynamic warm-zone location set up by Rescue Task Force teams on scene. CP (Command Post) is where incident command operates.
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- ASHER
- Active Shooter/Hostile Event Response — the program framework defined by NFPA 3000 (PS). Osceola County’s plan is the ASHER Incident Action Plan.
- Blue Gun
- Solid training/simulation firearm replica — NOT a real weapon. Carried by the shooter simulator.
- CCP
- Casualty Collection Point — a DYNAMIC warm-zone location established on scene by Rescue Task Force teams as the incident develops. NOT a pre-planned, fixed location.
- Not the same as CP (Command Post).
- CERT
- Community Emergency Response Team (OC-CERT = Osceola County CERT).
- Cold Zone
- Area with little or no threat — location for command, staging and treatment/transport.
- Contact Team
- Initial law enforcement entry team deployed to isolate, contain and/or neutralize the threat.
- Controller
- Exercise staff who manage a portion of the exercise, deliver injects, and enforce safety. Not being evaluated.
- COOP
- Continuity of Operations.
- CP
- Command Post — where incident command is located.
- Not the same as CCP (Casualty Collection Point).
- DPW
- Department of Public Works.
- EMD
- Emergency Management Director / Department (OCEMD = Osceola County Emergency Management).
- EMR
- Emergency Medical Responder.
- EMS
- Emergency Medical Services.
- EOC
- Emergency Operations Center.
- Exercise Traffic Only
- Required phrase to start and end every exercise radio transmission.
- FD
- Fire Department.
- FTT
- Field Training/Testing.
- Hard Perimeter
- Inner security boundary — a Law Enforcement function.
- Hot Wash
- Immediate post-exercise debrief/review conducted on scene after each run.
- Hot Zone
- Area of direct and immediate threat.
- HSEEP
- Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program — the federal policy this exercise is evaluated under.
- IAP / I.A.P.
- Incident Action Plan — here, the Osceola County ASHER Incident Action Plan being tested.
- ICS
- Incident Command System.
- IMT
- Incident Management Team.
- Inject
- A message or event introduced by a controller to drive exercise play. In this drill, injects come only as vocal instructions from controllers.
- IPAWS
- Integrated Public Alert & Warning System.
- JIS
- Joint Information System.
- LEIN
- Law Enforcement Information Network (67LEIN is restricted for primary law ops).
- LEO
- Law Enforcement Officer.
- MCA
- Medical Control Authority (4367MCA — hospital notification channel).
- MCOLES
- Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards.
- Med-Surge
- Medical Surge — coordination of mass casualty medical response with receiving hospitals.
- MFR
- Medical First Responder (used in the I.A.P. for initial fire/rescue medical units).
- MSP
- Michigan State Police.
- NFPA 3000
- National Fire Protection Association Standard for an Active Shooter/Hostile Event Response (ASHER) Program.
- Nixle
- Community notification service used by Emergency Management for public advisories.
- Overwatch
- Security Overwatch Controller — verifies no live firearms/weapons are on site.
- PD
- Police Department.
- PIO
- Public Information Officer.
- POV
- Privately Owned Vehicle.
- PSAP
- Public Safety Answering Point (9-1-1 center).
- REAL EMERGENCY
- Phrase used over radio or other communications to identify a real-world (non-exercise) message. All exercise activity stops.
- RST
- Rescue Strike Team — hot-zone victim rescue option.
- RT1 / RT2
- RT1 = Rapid Treatment team; RT2+ = Rapid Extrication team(s).
- RTF
- Rescue Task Force — fire/EMR personnel escorted by law enforcement to reach and treat victims in the warm zone.
- Run / Hide / Fight
- Site occupant response to an active threat (part of site lockdown response).
- Soft Perimeter
- Outer security/access boundary established and managed by Fire Dept apparatus and support units.
- Staging
- Off-site area where units check in, are held, and are released for assignment.
- TAC
- Tactical radio channel (e.g. 8TAC91D, 7TAC51D).
- UICS
- Unified Incident Command System.
- VHF
- Very High Frequency (radio band).
- Victim Simulator
- Volunteer playing an injured victim, wearing a color-coded injury shirt and carrying an injury card.
- Warm Zone
- Area of indirect/potential threat — cleared by law but not fully secure. RTFs operate and CCPs are established here.