I am involved with EMS/Fire and SAR. In my area (cornfield county Illinois) I have seen ICS both work and fail. I have also seen NIMS starting to get used more. In my area there are always jurisdictional battles it seems. One of the big problems is that is no one administrator over police, fire, ems, SAR (too many bosses) We have all trained on it numerous times. I believe it has to originate from the top.