Radio Cache:  A supply of radios stored in a pre-determined location for assignments to incidents.

Radio Operator (RADO): The person responsible for passing accurate and timely information via incident radio communications. May also be required to document all communications and ensure regular check-ins by resources are completed.

Receiving/Distribution Manager (RCDM): The person responsible for receiving and distributing all supplies and equipment (other than primary resources), and the service and repair of tools and equipment.

Recorders: Individuals within ICS organizational units who are responsible for recording information. Recorders may be found in Planning, Logistics, or Finance/Administration Units.

Recovery Plan: A plan developed to restore the affected area or community. 

Reimbursement: Mechanism used to recoup funds expended for incident-specific activities. 

Remote Automatic Weather Station (RAWS): A weather station at which the services of an observer are not required. A RAWS unit measures selected weather elements automatically and is equipped with telemetry apparatus for transmitting the electronically recorded data via radio, satellite, or by a land-line communication system at predetermined times or on a user request basis.

Reporting Locations:  Location or facilities where incoming resources can check-in at the incident.  (see Check-in).

Resources: Personnel and major items of equipment, supplies, and facilities available or potentially available for assignment to incident operations and for which status is maintained. Resources are described by Kind and Type and may be used in operational support or supervisory capacities at an incident or at an emergency operations center.

Resources - Available: The number of exchangable resources currently available. This is expected to change throughout the season due to internal resource demand.

Resources - Exportable: The number of resources the agency controls that meet all the Interagency Exchange Standards for the resource Kind and Type.

Resource Clerk (RESC):  The person responsible for support to the Resource Unit.

Resource Management: Efficient emergency management and incident response requires a system for identifying available resources at all jurisdictional levels to enable timely and unimpeded access to resources needed to prepare for, respond to, or recover from an incident.  

Resource Tracking: A standardized, integrated process conducted prior to, during, and after an incident by all emergency management/response personnel and their associated organizations. 

Resources Unit:  Unit within the Planning Section responsible for recording the status of resources committed to the incident.  The unit also evaluates resources currently committed to the incident(s), the impact that additional responding resources will have on the incident(s), and anticipated resource needs.

Resources Unit Leader (RESL): The person responsible for establishing all incident check-in activities; preparing and processing resource status information; preparing and maintaining displays, charts, and lists that reflect the current status and location of suppression resources, transportation, and support vehicles; and maintaining a master check-in list of resources assigned to the incident.

Response: Immediate actions to save lives, protect property and the environment, and meet basic human needs. Response also includes the execution of emergency plans and actions to support short-term recovery. (Intervention)

Risk: The combination of the likelihood and the consequence of a specified hazard being realized; refers to the vulnerability, proximity or exposure to hazards, which affects the likelihood of adverse impact. 

Risk-based: The concept that sound emergency management decision-making will be based on an understanding and evaluation of hazards, risks and vulnerabilities. 

Risk Management:  Risk Management is the process of making and carrying out decisions that will minimize the adverse effects of injuries, accidental losses and liability upon an organization.  Making these decisions requires the five steps in the decision process.  The five steps in the decision process are:

• Identifying exposure to loss
• Examining alternative techniques for dealing with the exposures
• Selecting the best techniques
• Implementing the chosen techniques, and
• Monitoring and improving the response

Carrying out these decisions requires the four functions in the management process.

The four functions in the management process are:

• Planing
• Organizing
• Leading, and
• Controlling

Risk Management Framework: Set of components that provide the foundations and organizational arrangements for designing, implementing, monitoring, reviewing and continually improving risk management throughout the organization.