ICS is a template that every local, county, state or federal government
resource must use "ONCE" an incident "outgrows the capasity/resource
limits" of that lowest level of local government. A local incident that
has no chance of requiring outside help does not need to utilize an ICS
template.
From the SAR perspective you never know if your incident will need to expandwith additional resources or if you'll quickly find the missing person. So we implement ICS - complete with forms - from the very beginning to have consistent documentation of all incidents.
Civilian non-governement teams who
want to play with the paid government personnel and their resources will
need to comply or not play.
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