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.
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Hundreds flee during a shooting outside a theater where a high school graduation ceremony had just ended
“Every recoverable victim was saved,” Allen Fire Chief Jonathan Boyd said, highlighting the work by EMS crews
Four years ago at Chabad of Poway a gunman opened fire during a Passover service, killing one of the congregants and wounding three others
The “bleeding control stations” would contain tourniquets, among other life-saving items, and include instructions on preventing blood loss
An Allen PD officer, who was on an unrelated call at the mall, engaged the suspect and neutralized the threat
WFAA-TV reported that police on the scene said there were multiple victims, including children
One woman was pronounced dead at the scene; EMS providers transported four people to hospitals
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Firefighters at Roseville Fire Department Station 5 heard gunfire and brought a wounded highway patrol officer into the station
A female suspect is dead; the Nashville Fire Department said it responded to an “active aggressor”
During a mass casualty incident, or when EMS isn’t available, survival of the wounded may depend on quick action
The bill supports tougher penalties for swatting calls that lead to an evacuation, lockdown or emergency response
Dozens of police, fire and EMS vehicles have responded, and a unified command post has been established on campus
Four people were killed at a mushroom farm and three at a trucking business on the outskirts of Half Moon Bay
LEOs arrived to find two students critically injured and they started CPR immediately, but the students later died at a hospital
Police have yet to reveal a possible motive for the shooting, including whether it was a possible hate crime or domestic violence incident
The truck can drive through up to 40 inches of water, in over 230 mph winds, up steep inclines and slopes, and can withstand 40,000 pounds of impact
Frustrated EMS providers described a chaotic scene and said they were uncertain who was in charge, where they should be and how many victims to expect
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“For person after person, it was the firefighters over and over again trying to be helpful in some way,” Second Assistant Chief Rob Sibley recalls of members’ support for the community
The shooter also died in the incident inside the Chesapeake store busy with Thanksgiving shoppers
Colorado Springs police officers, 34 firefighters, 11 ambulance crews and some FBI personnel responded to the active shooter incident at an LGBTQ club
A former football player is suspected of killing three football players and wounding two other students
Following the shots, the Med Express Ambulance employees noticed a man on a bicycle hit the ground, and made a U-turn to render aid
Two others, including a Raleigh Police Department K9 officer, were transported to a hospital
The jury said that it could not unanimously agree that the shooter should be executed
CAL FIRE Captain Chris Wetzel and his treating mental health provider detail his road from defeat to appreciation in the aftermath of tragedy
Five years after the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting, first responders have access to a 50,000-square-foot high-tech tactical training center
Fire Chief (ret.) Craig Daugherty recalled the day he responded to shots fired at the high school where his 15-year-old daughter was in lockdown
“We’re able to get the stretcher under the patient and drag them to what amounts to a safer area and use less rescuers,” said Fitchburg Fire Chief Joe Pulvermacher
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