Active Shooter
The Active Shooter topic gives EMTs and paramedics an invaluable resource to find news articles, response and triage tips and expert commentary for active shooter response - from stopping severe bleeding, triaging multiple patients, and entering the warm zone in a rescue task force, as well as advice to pass to your family in the event of an active shooter encounter.
Magen David Adom paramedics and EMTs are being targeted as they assist the victims of the terrorist attack
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
HEMSI medics were inside a home treating a patient when they heard gunshots
Practical takeaways from the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade shooting for initial treatment and safe transportation
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
Law enforcement relayed that 11 of the victims were children who were transported to Children’s Mercy, a Level 1 pediatric trauma center in the city
A fight between teens on a train turned into a shooting on the platform of a Bronx subway station
Two off-duty officers engaged an armed woman who opened fire inside the Houston church
Officers responded to a 911 call in East Lansdowne about a girl being shot immediately came under fire
Trainers across the country are including pyrotechnics, paid actors and virtual reality to better simulate realism for first responders
Officials in Ashtabula County held a drill at Conneaut High School and learned what they can improve upon
A man jumped out of the ambulance, assaulted a police officer and refused commands to drop a metal object
Most of the first Monterey Park firefighters on the scene of the Star Ballroom Dance Studio shooting had less than five years on the job
Dallas County Sheriff Adam Infante said the first officers encountered multiple victims
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Learn from a real-world use case of the rescue strike team and the three phases of deployment
The abandoned Lexington school will provide training for active shooter situations and other emergencies
The first university officer arrived within 78 seconds of the gunfire report, and university and city police swarmed the building
University of Nevada shooter who killed 3 was a professor who recently applied for a job, police say
The gunman opened fire at a University of Nevada, Las Vegas building, killing three people and critically wounding a fourth before dying in a shootout with police
Las Vegas police said the shooter has been located and is deceased
The training ended with an exercise involving mock shooting victims, allowing medics to refine skills such as wound packing
All patients are reported to be in stable condition after a gunman shot through a wall of a Lumberton restaurant
“The conditions of the victims right now is unknown” but all were taken to hospitals for treatment, police Capt. Scott Molnar said
Bradley Haas, a Department of Safety security officer, was working at the front lobby entrance when he was killed
Central Maine Medical Center’s ED was already at capacity when the shootings in Lewiston occurred
Gov. Janet Mills provided an update to the number of dead and wounded in an active shooter incident at to locations in Lewiston
First responders from several agencies in Ottawa County participated in scenarios involving clearing rooms, treating victims
People fled in panic as a shooting happened inside the fairground
Officers were transported to two hospitals after a shooting in Princeton
The report on the shooting in Virginia Beach that killed 12 people covered more training for first responders and teaching civilians how to slow victim bleeding
State police believe the shooting inside the Indiana building was isolated to attendees inside and not a larger, community threat
Police say at least four people were shot in an “active shooter situation” on campus; the area was under a shelter-in-place order for several hours
