Disaster Management
Every community has a festival, fair or event that could be a target for violence, like the Gilroy Garlic Festival
A tragic incident in which a NY firefighter was killed by ambulance should have your department reviewing post-accident/incident plans, EVOC and safety courses
Philip D. White, master fire service instructor, addressed planning effective first responder incident preparedness and recovery training sessions at the recent California Mobile Command Center Expo
Continuous ice fall and rock fall make the area too dangerous for rescuers
The sheriff said the slide remains to unstable for searchers to continue
The injured were in their trailers when the tornado struck and didn’t have time to take shelter
All that was left of some of the eight vehicles were charred hunks of nearly indiscernible metal after almost zero visibility led to a chain reaction of rear-end collisions
The building will take months to repair, but EMS workers say they’re glad it was their empty building and not a home were someone could have been injured or killed
Certified as an EMT in the 1970s, she began disaster relief work after 9/11
Dozens of ambulances drove back and forth to carry the rising number of bodies as well as injured workers extracted from the mine
One Florida woman died when she drove her car into high water, officials said
The transition was marked by gathering 200 firefighters, National Guard members, first responders and volunteers for a ceremony punctuated by a lone bagpiper who played “Amazing Grace”
There were about 15 patients in hospital rooms and eight or nine in the ER when it struck.
Rescuers linked hands and waded through an area where wood frame homes had been heavily damaged
Rescue crews are sifting through the rubble with hopes of finding survivors, and are still assessing the full extent of the damage
Fire chief: ‘We’re up against the Earth, and the Earth’s movement is an extremely powerful thing.’
The commercialization of unmanned aerial aircrafts is leading to innovative, off-the-shelf tools for EMS
This is the second time the emergency management director was inside a public safety building that was hit; the county moved to a backup plan after $500K in damage to the 911 system
Only three of those killed in the March 22 disaster are still unidentified; the missing list has gone down to 12 from 13
Rescue teams continue the search for victims and work to identify bodies
The number of confirmed dead increased from 18 to 21; searchers are worried about dysentery, tetanus and contamination
As an increasingly desperate search progresses, the official death toll rose to 16, with the possibility of 24 dead once bodies are confirmed
Within hours of the mudslide, emergency crews were searching for life in a post-apocalyptic scene, dodging chunks of splintered birch trunks, half-buried pickup trucks and growing pools of water
The Texas facility was evacuated for a hazmat situation after about 12 people had reactions to a large packet of cinnamon that broke open
Accidents involved at least 50 cars along a 2-mile stretch, as emergency workers stuck in traffic struggled to reach victims
Two passengers requested medical attention, and a group of Belgian firefighters on board the US Airways jet assisted with the evacuation
The driver and passenger did not suffer any serious injuries when the vehicle overturned
