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If there is no section chief assigned yet, the situation unit leader will report to an Incident Commander. This system was implemented for emergency response coordination.
The normal response is to report to whoever the Plans Section Cchief would report to. This is normally the Incident Commander. The other option is to interpret the appointment of the (SUL) within the Plans Section as being appointed as Plans Section Chief only for Situation Unit function.
Chris Smith is the Situation Unit Leader. No Planning Section Chief is assigned. Who does Chris Smith report to?
Incident Commander
The situation unit leader reports to their planning section chief for situation briefings. The SUL prepares for future projections of incident growth, maps, and intelligence information.
Incident management personnel organized according to function (i.e., Operations Section Chief, Planning Section Chief, Logistics Section Chief, and Finance/Administration Section Chief) and who report directly to the Incident Commander
Incident management personnel organized according to function (i.e., Operations Section Chief, Planning Section Chief, Logistics Section Chief, and Finance/Administration Section Chief) and who report directly to the Incident Commander
Incident management personnel organized according to function (i.e., Operations Section Chief, Planning Section Chief, Logistics Section Chief, and Finance/Administration Section Chief) and who report directly to the Incident Commander
Incident management personnel organized according to function (i.e., Operations Section Chief, Planning Section Chief, Logistics Section Chief, and Finance/Administration Section Chief) and who report directly to the Incident Commander
Incident management personnel organized according to function (i.e., Operations Section Chief, Planning Section Chief, Logistics Section Chief, and Finance/Administration Section Chief) and who report directly to the Incident Commander
The list of sources is at the very end of the report, after the closing section.
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