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A School Shooting is a Community Shooting. Many people in the community will know either one of the victims or a member or friend of the victim's family. This results in a more urgent need for effective response and a wider need for resiliency services.
The community response is typically massive, utilizing all non-essential community resources. Failure to incorporate best practices, can result in reduced scene access, reduced medical response, and increased chaos.
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Sadly, nothing draws a crowd like a fire. It's as if it is hardwired into our genome. And while we as a species seem better able to handle the crisis of a fire better than a shooting or bombing, a fire, especially a large fire, can create as much a need for community health services as any of the other incidents.
There are additional steps that must be taken to manage a fire; steps that can include milestones for seeking state and federal assistance.
Our checklist can help.
A bombing creates mass panic and community terror. There is a reason terrorists use bombings as a method of enacting their political reforms and expressing their hatred of the targets.
Regardless of whether an explosions is accidental or planned, the proper response is critical to determining into which class the incident falls and if the latter, capturing the perpetrators.
There is a proper response to a bombing that is very different from the other incident types.
There are a myriad other community crises that can require community assistance and can affect the communities ability to heal.
The response to natural disasters like flood, earthquake and storms are generally handled by FEMA. However FEMA is not plugged into the community. For a community to heal, it must utilize the resources at hand.
These checklists can help prepare for those times that no disaster plan can fully address.
The unthinkable has happened - a crisis event has occurred on your watch. You have a disaster plan, but it is five hundred pages long and you have exactly five minutes to coordinate a response that will carry you through the next 36-72 hours. This response must incorporate all the elements required to address the community, victims, judiciary, media and all the rest. The wrong task list will compound the grief and suffering for the entire community, it will destroy lives and it will be picked apart in the national and local media. Whether or not you have utilized our services, you are going to need our free, up-to-date checklists. If you haven't been through our training, you will likely need our Incident Services as well.
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