BY ALAN BRUNACINI
Our last “Unplugged” started a discussion about the early stages of the ongoing fire service adventure into developing and using an incident command system (ICS) to manage hometown hazard-zone operations. I was an early recruit and have been playing (fourth fiddle) in the local-level ICS band since the beginning almost 40 years ago.
I spent my entire career assigned as a local yokel to a remote desert outpost where the weather is always routine and dull—it looks summertime bright and sunny pretty much 365 days a year. It doesn’t snow, and we have fifth graders who have never seen rain. We do not have natural disasters (no large wildland fires, mudslides, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, civil disorders, etc.).
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