Earthquakes, Forest Fires, and Your Next Production Incident
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A history of the Incident Command System traces back to the 1970 Laguna Fire (175,000+ acres, 382 homes lost, 16 dead) and shows how a standardized response cut chaos and scaled to hurricanes and hazmat before DHS mandated ICS in 2002. The claim: adopt ICS philosophy for production incidents — appoint an incident commander, an ops lead, comms and planning leads, use a single Slack channel as a command post and a shared template (Google Docs with /copy hack), enforce handoffs, train and run drills; it works but must be practiced and tested.
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- 0:00Intro
- 0:21THE LAGUNA FIRE
- 1:42CHANGES IMPACT EVERYTHING
- 3:57NO GRAY WOLVES
- 4:43WITH GRAY WOLVES
- 5:51CHANGES EMIT CHANGES
- 6:41RESPONDING AGENCIES MEET
- 7:48FIRESCOPE
- 8:03SERIOUS RESEARCH COMMENCES
- 8:34AFTER LOTS OF RESEARCH
- 10:14SUCCESS!
- 12:13ALMOST NOTHING IS NEW
- 15:18INCIDENT COMMANDER (IC)
- 16:26OPERATIONS LEAD
- 18:03COMMAND POST
- 20:03COMMUNICATIONS LEAD
- 21:24INCIDENT STATE DOCUMENTS
- 23:02PLANNING LEAD
- 24:36ICS AND FLEXIBILITY
- 28:46IS THIS AN INCIDENT?
- 31:48LOTS WENT WRONG
- 32:22ANTICIPATE
- 32:48TRAIN
- 33:32TEST