The RESOURCE MANAGEMENT CARDS are an optional component of the Fireground Accountability System. They are used to provide the Staging/Logistics Officer (Base Manager) with a summary of each vehicle's capabilities in the event that specialized equiptment is needed or requested by Command. This often results in assignments being filled quicker with the proper equiptment. The Resource Management Card (RMC) can be used as a "ticket" in and out of the staging area (base) without jeopardizing the effectiveness of the Personnel Accountability System

Each vehicle can be equipped with a Resource Management Card which contains information about the apparatus and what, if any, specialized equiptment it carries. Each RMC can contain the same major components, in the same order for all Departments, with vehicle is not equipped with the specified major component(s) that line can be left blank. The Resource Management System can assume the equiptment which is typricall carried on a particular type of apparatus is there (ie. saws carried on trucks).