Mass Casualty Incidents
As the military saying goes, “Prior planning prevents poor performance.” 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.
The 911 landscape has changed as acts of mass violence and other multi-caller/multi-victim high-threat incidents begin to increase
Paramedic chiefs and field providers have much to learn from the FBI’s ongoing summary and analysis of active shooter incidents
All organizations should develop an emergency action plan and train to respond to active shooter scenarios
Volunteers sprawled out on the grass next to scrap airplane parts as responders entered the simulation
Five more bodies were found as toxic gases and ash forced rescue workers to halt recovery efforts
Japan’s fire and rescue agency says 32 people are injured, 12 seriously
EMS Chief Ken Bouvier talks about his nearly 40 years in EMS and what it took to prepare his city of 360,000 for the two overlapping events
Todd Stout, founder and president of FirstWatch, discusses the amount of data available available to EMS leaders and how to best put it to use
Planning, personal protective equipment and routine vaccinations helps maintain infection control
The satellite hospital, called Rampart, includes 300 employees and is expected to treat nearly 3,200 people during the week-long remote desert festival
System received over 35 calls for service over the next four hours, the equivalent of a normal 24 hour shift
It was China’s most serious industrial disaster since a fire at a poultry plant killed 119 people in June last year
Chris and Kelly also talk about the lack of funding for a community paramedicine program in Corpus Christi, Texas
U.S. government warns against travel to Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia
At least 100 ambulances have been sent to the area where 70 homes were buried and 158 more were hit
The victims ignored safety warnings and drowned Wednesday due to a combination of high winds and strong current
Crews from five communities near Boston treated 46 and transported 22, mostly for alcohol-related illnesses at Keith Urban show
Firefighters believe lightning struck the ocean and spread through the water
Hung Yu-ting escaped through a hole in the fuselage; she used the phone at a nearby house to call her father
It was treated as an MCI, and a medical ambulance bus that can fit 14 stretcher patients or 26 seated patients was dispatched
The jet carrying 280 passengers and 15 crew did not make a distress call before going down
It was unclear what caused the train to derail; officials vigorously dismissed terrorism as a possible cause
Cassidy Stay was discharged in good condition and is expected to make a full recovery
Medics also treated seven more who were wounded
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
At 8:53 a.m., two minutes before a crew member on the bridge made the ferry’s first distress call, one student says: “Am I really going to die?”
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”
Rescuers linked hands and waded through an area where wood frame homes had been heavily damaged