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Incident Command for IT—What We've Learned from the Fire Department

Brent Chapman workshop applying fire-department incident command to IT; praised by an attendee.

At a glance:
First seen:2026-10-01
Last seen:2026-10-01
Times seen:1
Website:usenix.org

The short version

Brent Chapman workshop applying fire-department incident command to IT; praised by an attendee.

Why it caught our attention

An attendee explicitly calls the incident-command talk excellent, a useful discovery in a statistics thread.

Where it surfaced on Hacker News

2026-10-01

“I as able to hear him at BayLISA giving his talk on incident command and what we can learn from the fire department[2][3], an excellent talk.”

buredoranna · recommendation · first hand use

Direct HN comment

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