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The Fires that created an Incident Management System Dale D. Rowley Abstract From September 22 to October 4, 1970, 773 wildfires in Southern California, burned 576,508. acres, destroyed 722 homes and killed 16 people. From these 13 days of death and destruction by out-of-control wildfires in the Urban-Wildland Interface, a Federally-funded project was created in California called the FIrefighting REsources of Southern California Organized for Potential Emergencies or otherwise known as FIRESCOPE. Out of the FIRESCOPE research project came two new concepts, the Incident Command System (ICS) and the Multi-Agency Coordination System (MACS).

Angeles County Fire Department, the Los Angeles County Sheriff, Los Angeles County Administrative Services and the Los Angeles City Fire Department.

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