Create Your First Incident

Audience: Emergency managers and WebEOC Nexus administrators responsible for incident management

Goal: Create, activate, and manage an incident within WebEOC Nexus.

What You'll Learn

Incidents provide the operational workspace where emergency response activities are coordinated. This guide walks you through creating your first incident and managing it throughout its life cycle.

What You'll Accomplish

• An incident is created and activated.

• Users can switch to and work within the incident.

• The incident can be managed, combined into a Master View A combined view of multiple incidents that a user can view together or filter to a single incident., or closed when operations are complete.

Follow these steps

• Create and activate an incident

• Deactivate an incident

• Delete an incident

• Switch between incidents

• Combine critical or current incidents in a Master View, allowing users with permission to access multiple sub-incidents