Recent acts of mass violence during active shooter events and other incidents in schools, churches and businesses continue to highlight the need for a multi-pronged strategy for both training and response.
This special EMS1/Lexipol guide outlines lessons identified from past incidents that can direct EMS involvement in pre-planning mass gatherings, improve multi-agency cooperation, and inform incident command and response strategies on the ground.
Good communication and pre-planning: What the Boston Marathon bombing taught us
Lessons for the incident commander gleaned from the 7/7 2005 London terrorist attack
Creating an effective tabletop training exercise for pre-planning MCI response
7 steps to factoring in violence as a possible variable at special event EMS response and incident command
O'Hare joins the podcast to discuss training and lessons from his role in the Boston Marathon bombing response
Six takeaways from the USFA, NHTSA best practices to protect fire and EMS providers responding to incidents of civil unrest
Brian Hupp, director of EMS at the Maury Regional Medical Center, joins the podcast to discuss tabletop MCI exercises
Jason Killens, chief executive of the UK's Welsh Ambulance Service, discusses the complexity of response to an 800 casualty incident across four separate locations
The top tenets of violent threat attack training and practice for EMS responders
As mass violence incidents grow in scale and frequency, less than half of EMS feels adequately prepared to respond
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