The 2nd of two publications (the other being ICS Model Procedure Guide Using NIMS-ICS), Special Operations-Incidents Involving Hazardous Materials/WMD, Structural Collapse, Wildland, and Managing Large-Scale Incidents using NIMS-ICS includes incidents pertaining to wildland fires, hazardous materials incidents, USAR/structural collapse incidents, and other types of large scale incidents.

The primary advantage of using this publication as opposed to free publications from government sources is that the NIMSC publications go well beyond providing simple information on the ICS framework.

These publications go the next step and apply ICS to specific types of incident. These examples can be used in training personnel to do the same: take ICS and efficiently apply it to the incident at hand.