The National Wildfire Coordinating Group, with membership from nine federal agencies, used IMTs to manage responses to large-scale fires and other major natural and man-made disasters. But those IMTs were not just professional firefighters. Their support structure included leaders and members from federal, state, and local agencies who dealt with an amazing array of “all-hazard” incidents. In addition to containing large-scale wildfires, they provided assistance in such diverse situations as search and rescue following the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001, containing the Exotic
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