Active Shooter Events
As firefighters respond to an increasing number of active shooter incidents, crews are forced to find new ways to train and comprehensive resources that cover the latest approaches to these high-risk events that have become the “new normal” for first responders across the country.
A video shared from the scene showed someone apparently performing chest compressions on a shooting victim as another person, seemingly writhing in pain, lay on the ground nearby
Dallas County Sheriff Adam Infante said the first officers found multiple gunshot wound victims at the Perry school
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“I’ve seen things that I haven’t seen before in 32 years, and it’s happened time and time again,” Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said
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“We’re able to get the stretcher under the patient and drag them to what amounts to a safer area and use less rescuers,” said Fitchburg Fire Chief Joe Pulvermacher
Chief Joe Schrage said 30+ firefighters responded, EMS providers transported 24 people, and the department made trauma counselors available
Chief William Halstead led the department’s response to the 2012 elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
The challenge now is how to show up every day, with the same energy, and resist the threats of indifference and complacency
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A grocery store assistant manager said she was berated for whispering; the call taker said she is “being attacked for one side of the story”
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“Sadly, this isn’t the last time we will see these headlines, but for us, today, put the tourniquet away and focus on the heart and soul of those in our charge.”
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“My mom was the consummate mom,” Garnell Whitfield said. “My mother was a mother to the motherless.”
Erie County Sheriff: “This was pure evil. It was straight up racially motivated hate crime from somebody outside of our community.”
Our approaches to MCI response and management need to evolve to reflect their increasing complexity and danger
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