“…Infrastructures are alike in that they provide vital services, but differ because those services differ markedly. This note sketches another set of differences, similarities and mixed features when comparing emergency response to those large sociotechnical systems with control rooms for water and energy provision in California that we have studied (Roe & Schulman, ; Roe, Bea, Jonkman, Faucher de Corn, Foster, Radke, Schulman, & Storesund, forthcoming; Schulman & Roe, ). Since from a management perspective the differences rather than similarities are more striking, we spend a good deal of time on the former.…”