Mass Casualty Incidents
As the military saying goes, 鈥淧rior planning prevents poor performance.鈥� This phrase can be applied to preparing for mass casualty incidents. Check this page for articles and resources on ensuring you and your department are ready for the unexpected, as well as the latest updates on major incidents in the United States and across the world.
Takeaways from Dr. Tan and Chief Wylie on training and communicating to deploy rescue task forces, unified command and casualty collection points
Why EMS should use preparatory commands
Saving lives with coordinated trauma care through pre-planning, training and relationship building
Honolulu EMS and AMR crewmembers transported 20 patients; 11 were in serious condition
Police say 22 passengers were injured and required transport
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鈥淔or person after person, it was the firefighters over and over again trying to be helpful in some way,鈥� Second Assistant Chief Rob Sibley recalls of members鈥� support for the community
All public safety agencies will be located in one location for better communication; HPD鈥檚 police chief will have the authority to reject security plans
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The shooter also died in the incident inside the Chesapeake store busy with Thanksgiving shoppers
Chesapeake police believe 鈥渓ess than 10" people have died, after officers sent rescue and tactical teams inside to render aid
Employees and shoppers were rendering aid when first responders arrived; EMS providers transported 16 people to hospitals
Colorado Springs police officers, 34 firefighters, 11 ambulance crews and some FBI personnel responded to the active shooter incident at an LGBTQ club
Crews rushed to move the injured recruits off a live electrical wire downed in the crash and stabilize as many patients as possible
A former football player is suspected of killing three football players and wounding two other students
Roughly 1,700 emergency workers were dispatched to the scene where ambulances lined streets and EMS providers and bystanders performed CPR
Darrell Brooks was found guilty of all 76 charges, including six counts of first-degree intentional homicide
The jury said that it could not unanimously agree that the shooter should be executed
Officials declared a mass casualty incident, bringing every ambulance in Allentown and more from surrounding municipalities
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One person was detained by police, and several people were transported to nearby hospitals, including three who were listed in critical condition
鈥淚 needed to help them. I needed to make sure that our people were good and we could take care of these people, and that鈥檚 why I chose to stay.鈥�
CAL FIRE Captain Chris Wetzel and his treating mental health provider detail his road from defeat to appreciation in the aftermath of tragedy
Five years after the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting, first responders have access to a 50,000-square-foot high-tech tactical training center
At least 10 ambulance crews responded, according to the Chicago Fire Department, which asked for help searching the structure
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Fire Chief (ret.) Craig Daugherty recalled the day he responded to shots fired at the high school where his 15-year-old daughter was in lockdown
He was on scene as the EMS incident command and said more than 100 EMS, fire and police personnel from several municipalities and counties responded
The Public Safety Officer Support Act supports first responders who experienced PTSD or died by suicide following exposure to certain traumatic events
鈥淲e鈥檙e able to get the stretcher under the patient and drag them to what amounts to a safer area and use less rescuers,鈥� said Fitchburg Fire Chief Joe Pulvermacher
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