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When a public safety student begins to study emergency management theory, they will realize that there is a “documented birth” of IMS. While other incidents may have helped form IMS methods, the focused creation as a public safety entity‐based management system came about in the late 1960s. It was developed after the devastating wildfires that ravaged parts of Southern California. The fire service in California (as well as other state and local agencies) knew that they had to find ways to overcome a series of repeated deficiencies, mistakes, and negative events that seemed to occur during large‐scale, statewide (or multiagency) emergency operations. The agencies who responded to these incidents began to identify common failures in their response efforts to these events. These ongoing problems were especially important when multiple agencies responded to the same incident, and the same issues were seen time, and time, again. The most apparent problems, at least in the initial stages of creating IMS methods, appeared to be the same (or at least similar) issues.