The Region D Homeland Security Committee and Missouri Fire and Rescue Training will provide and General Staff Functions for Local Incident Management Teams in May at Springfield-Greene County Emergency Management Office. This 6 day program will be presented May 7-9 and 14-16. This class will provide training to new and existing members of the Southwest Missouri Incident Support Team. The training was developed by the National Fire Academy and will be the Pilot presentation in the state of Missouri.  

The Region D Homeland Security Oversight Committee has approved a grant to the Southwest Missouri Incident Support Team for additional equipment and training for 2008.The team was funded for $15,000 for additional Local IMT training classes, and $3500.00 for travel expenses for upcoming Position Specific training.Additional equipment which will be purchased soon will be a large format printer, an radio interconnect that will allow sharing of frequencies with multiple radios, and additional computer equipment that will be used on a Command trailer provided by Greene County EMA. The Southwest Missouri Incident Support Team would like to thank Region D RHSOC for thier financial support of the IST.

The National Fire Academy will be providing Command and General Staff Functions for Local IMT's to the states in late January.

This will provide us the opportunity to provide this training in Missouri in late April or early May. This is a six day (tentative) class.

We will schedule it in two sections. This class should be taken by all members who did not attend the Type 3 training classes held earlier in the state.