Sometimes change creates problems

摘要

Editor in Chief Bobby Halton's "The Right Thing and the Right Way" (Editor's Opinion, February 2009) was excellent and hit it right on the head. I am an advocate of the incident command system and organization at an incident; but, unfortunately, adaptation and interpretation are issues. The states for the most part, in my opinion, pretty much had been using a very well-organized incident command system in the Midwest and on the East Coast for a long, long time, even before Chief Alan Brunacini. His system strengthened and reinforced what was being done. FIRESCOPE definitely works for the West Coast. Why couldn't things just be left alone and something similar to the National Incident Management System be taught for large-scale incidents-those disasters that involve many agencies? Sometimes the Feds, while well' meaning, are still out of touch with the real world.