The National Incident Management System (NIMS) was designed to provide a proactive in systematic approach to manage various agencies and departments; local, state, and federal that are assigned to an incident. NIMS allows the integration of private sector, government entities, and non-governmental organizations to work together effortlessly “to prevent, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of incidents, regardless of cause, size, location, or complexity. NIMS resource typing is the categorization and description of response resources that are commonly exchanged in disasters through mutual aid agreements” (Kamien, 2012, p.665). These mutual aid agreements allow various agencies to respond and provide support
