id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-018937-5yo4rfml Bortolin, Michelangelo Disaster Medicine 2015-04-18 .txt text/plain 3722 188 51 Disaster is defi ned as any event that causes "a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society involving widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses and impacts, which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources" [ 1 ] . The Incident Command System (ICS) provides a structure to enable agencies with different legal, jurisdictional, and functional responsibilities to coordinate, plan, and interact effectively on scene [ 11 ] . During a disaster, it is extremely important to establish a unifi ed command, because it enables all responsible agencies to manage and coordinate an incident together by establishing a common approach and a single IAP. It is defi ned as second incident caused by the terrorists, following the fi rst event, with the goal of striking the fi rst responders that are on scene. ./cache/cord-018937-5yo4rfml.txt ./txt/cord-018937-5yo4rfml.txt