How Was ICS Developed?
The Incident Command System (ICS) resulted from the obvious need for a innovative solution to the problem of managing rapidly moving wildfires that occurred in California in the early 1970s. At that time, fire officials and emergency managers faced a number of problems: Each responding agency had different organizational structure and used varying terminology. Communications modes were inadequate and incompatible. There were unclear lines of authority and no unified system of coordination. Objectives were often unclear or unspecified.
