If local leaders, public safety, and utility companies would embrace an incident command system, that integrates all of the above, AND, most importantly; regularly trains in a variety of scenarios, and establish's command post(s) in each of the major town and cities to work out of, these issues would not come up, it's just so much easier to point fingers at each other instead of pre-planning as a team for the benefit of the communities involved. It really is a shame, because where I live know, we've been using the ICS system for natural and manmade incident and it works flawlessly...why you ask, because everybody work together as a team, and they pre plan all the time. Right now our agencies are planning for flood disasters that occur in the spring, and last spring they pre-planned on avalanche incidents, throughout the year they pre-plan for outbreaks of contagious diseases.....some communities walk the talk and are progressive...other communities just talk View Comment