The Incident Command System : A 25-Year Evaluation by California Practitioners

The purpose of this research project was to provide the beginnings of a such an
evaluation of ICS at the end of its first quarter-century of use in California. To accomplish this a
system performance audit was conducted using information provided by Command and General
Staff members of California's 17 standing major incident teams, most of whom have used ICS
since its very inception in California in the 1970s.