"The fire behavior I would classify as extreme, " Rex Reed, the incident commander, earlier Tuesday.
Roger Laferriere, Incident Commander for Houma, Louisiana, spoke passionately of the work being done on the coast.
In that national exercise, I was the national incident commander in the drill.
The 230-acre fire was 30 percent contained and "remains a threat to Boulder, " Reuters quoted incident commander Rocky Opliger as saying.
We are joined this morning by -- with Thad Allen, our national incident commander dealing with the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
"We had crews on scene very quickly and they were faced with a huge hole in the middle of the three-storey terraced building, " said incident commander Stuart Nicholson.
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Thad Allen, the government's national incident commander in the region.
Captain Steve Poulin, who is the local incident commander, had gathered a lot of these suggestions and is going to be moving on them in the days to come.
Now, we just finished a meeting with Admiral Thad Allen, our National Incident Commander for this spill, as well as Coast Guard personnel who are leading the response to this crisis.
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At his regular briefing with reporters Wednesday, National Incident Commander Thad Allen said additional questions about the unit would now have to go to the U.S. Justice Department and the Joint Investigation Team.
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When Admiral Allen was here last week we talked about some of the commitments that he had last week in his retirement from the Coast Guard as he even -- as he remains the National Incident Commander.
Her most recent in-depth interview was with Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey about the rise of ISIS and Admiral Thad Allen, National Incident Commander for the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico, gaining unprecedented access to the disaster site.
The nationally accepted practice is that you only take command (as chief) if there's something going wrong or if you can strengthen the command position or if it's overwhelming for the incident commander, and none of those things were in fact happening.
Number one, to make sure that there is a nimble and effective local response, Thad Allen has now assigned deputy incident commanders to each of the individual states, so Florida will have its own deputy incident commander, as Mississippi and Alabama do.
But that's the role that we have to play -- to ensure that when the federal on-scene coordinator and our national incident commander make decisions that authorize BP to do different things, that the conditions at which that authorization is given are met.
"The nationally accepted practice is that you only take command (as chief) if there's something going wrong or if you can strengthen the command position or if it's overwhelming for the incident commander, and none of those things were in fact happening, " he told the paper.
President Obama met today with Secretary Napolitano, Secretary Chu, Secretary Salazar, Administrator Jackson, Administrator Lubchenco, National Incident Commander Admiral Thad Allen, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change Carol Browner and other senior White House officials to receive a briefing on the administration-wide response to the Deepwater BP Oil Spill.
In the last week, we have shifted control of skimming assets to the commander and the Incident Command Post in Alabama, who is responsible for Mississippi, Alabama and Florida -- and actually have detached a task force to work for him to push out 50 miles offshore and find these smaller patches and try and deal with them before they get to shore.
"We send our prayers and condolences to the families of Marines involved in this tragic incident, " said the force's commander, Maj.
Los Angeles Police Commander Timothy McBride told CNN that an investigation into the 1978 Boyle Heights incident is just getting under way.
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