Active Shooter
This directory provides essential articles on Active Shooter response, tailored for the EMS workforce. Topics include response protocols, coordination with law enforcement, and strategies for managing mass casualty incidents. Understanding how to effectively respond to an Active Shooter situation is critical for ensuring the safety of both victims and responders. For further reading, explore our mass casualty incident management resources, which closely relate to Active Shooter scenarios. Equip yourself with the knowledge needed to handle these high-stress situations effectively by accessing our comprehensive collection.
NFPA’s John M. Montes, NREMT, examines how ASHER programs help communities prepare for, respond to and recover from active shooter incidents
Chief Norris Croom highlights the need to plan and train for when to stage, when to enter the hot zone and when to retreat
Emergency management concerns for the hours and days following an active shooter event
The owners of a special event standby service in Nevada offer lessons learned from the Route 91 festival shooting in Las Vegas
The audio reveals responders scrambling to get the wounded out of the freshman building while not knowing where the shooter was
Curtis Brown reunited with Kristina Anderson, whom he carried out of a campus building after she had been shot three times in the 2007 incident
Marion County 911 and the Hannibal public school district are teaming up to access any of the security cameras in operation throughout the school district
The locks, sometimes called “Columbine locks,” allow teachers and students to open and close the doors from inside
Daniel Smith and his friend, Daniel Brymer, were playing with an airsoft gun when Brymer accidentally shot Smith with his real gun
After a shooting at YouTube headquarters, Google and YouTube are donating to the San Bruno Community Foundation to fund an initiative aimed at responders
“Once again, we are confronted with a specter of a mass casualty situation... this is unfortunate and it continues,” Dr. Andre Campbell said
A woman believed to be the shooter died of a self-inflicted gunshot after injuring four people
Lexington Park Volunteer Rescue Squad Deputy Chief Michael Cahall said he had decided to work from home that day, which meant he was able to rush to the scene
As a response to the recent slew of school shootings, 38 teachers learned how to use tourniquets and pack bullet wounds
Great active shooter incident training takes a concerted effort to make exercises real, relevant, interesting and captivating for all participants
The calls shed some light on the terror inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the shooting, in which 17 people were killed
Prehospital care experts stress the importance of the Stop the Bleed initiative, preparing bystanders to control severe hemorrhage and securing funding for a statewide program
Firefighters secured the girl with a harness after she became stuck while on a school field trip
A sense of order begins to emerge among the Broward dispatchers and they start giving instructions on keeping the students safe
The kits, which include a tourniquet, medical gloves, bandages, tape, scissors and gauze are named after Jacob Hall, who was killed in a school shooting
In a mass shooting, deputies would stay with the responders to provide security as fire department paramedics treat the wounded
The school says police believe the Friday morning shooting “started from a domestic situation”
Money raised from the public will be combined with funds generated by an employee giving campaign, and all proceeds will help those affected by the tragedy
Sources said some of the EMS teams were told they could not enter the school when they requested access
Chief Susie Tingler was honored “for putting herself in harm’s way to serve her community” while responding to the shooting at Advanced Granite Solutions
Farmington police, firefighters and paramedics from San Juan Regional Medical Center conducted joint training under their new multi-agency policy
Lt. Laz Ojeda teared up as he recalled making the decision to take Madeleine Wilford to a closer hospital instead of the policy-dictated hospital 30 miles away
When paramedics found high school student Maddy Wilford, they thought she was dead due to the multiple gunshot wounds she had suffered
ER doctors at Broward Health North hospital treated several victims after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, as well as the shooter himself
An international perspective and a local approach to community education illustrate how community resiliency training can save lives
So far, the anti-bleeding kits are in about 345 school buildings where teachers and staffs have completed training in about 70 school districts
The president’s address comes a day after a former student opened fire at a Florida high school, killing 17 people and injuring 14 more
To reduce the dying from active shooter incidents the killing and bleeding has to be stopped quicker
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