Mass Casualty Incidents
The Mass Casualty Incidents topic page provides news, videos and expert columns about dealing with large-scale incidents including terrorist attacks, dirty bombs, natural disasters and more.
Once you find a manifesto and begin to read, there will be little doubt in your mind as to the severity of the subject’s intended actions
Law enforcement must continue to keep these low-frequency, high-consequence events at the forefront of their training
How can we ensure a consistently effective response across all aspects of preparation, strategy and execution?
The officer has been identified as Const. Heidi Stevenson, a mother of two and a 23-year veteran of the RCMP
The tribute included the reading of the names of the 168 who died followed by 168 seconds of silence
The bombing, and 9/11 in New York six years later, changed the public’s perception of first responders
Global health bodies have provided conflicting reports as to the risk of COVID-19 transmission from corpses to living people
Col. Patrick Callahan has the emergency authority to seize N95 masks, ventilators and other PPE for first responders and healthcare workers
Sheriff Alex Villanueva has repeatedly called the decision a ‘power grab'; officials have said the decision was months in the making
Officials say they are still investigating a possible motive for the mass shooting
Officer Cordell Hendrex is due to return to work March 21 following an arbitrator’s ruling in his bid to get his job back
The suspect in at least two deadly shootings has been found dead in an apartment
In large-scale emergencies, police, fire, EMS, and a wide variety of other governmental organizations and private enterprises need to pull together
Fire, EMS and law enforcement personnel can play an important role in the layers of safety that protect religious gatherings in the event of an emergency
Investigators are tracing the gun used in the shooting, which was found on the bus after the driver escorted the shooter off
The two suspects were taken into custody in Las Vegas a week after the fatal shooting
The ability to ensure that command, control, communication, computation and information is harnessed in one place is of paramount importance for public safety
Authorities haven’t released the names of the suspects or details about the cause of the shooting
Marquise Latrelle Tolbert and William Ray Tolliver are considered armed and dangerous, officials say
The chief said based on video from the scene, multiple people fired weapons after a dispute outside a McDonald’s
The man who opened fire outside a Kansas City bar was shot by an armed security guard
Officials believe the two shooters were linked to another anti-Semitic attack and were prepared to cause greater destruction using two shrapnel bombs
A police sergeant said fire and medical personnel helped work with victims and law enforcement to track down the suspect
A stabbing inside a restaurant set off a violent string of attacks at a shopping plaza
Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said his department has enacted 84 of 93 recommendations
How public safety officials can prepare faith-based groups for the commonplace and out-of-the-ordinary incidents that might befall citizens in their houses of worship
The suspect was stopped in Manhattan and taken into custody by NYPD, officials say
The gunman opened fire inside a packed church, killing one and critically injuring another before the congregants shot and killed him
State police are investigating the incident, which comes after a series of apparently anti-Semitic attacks reported throughout New York
With 2020 about to commence, Jim and Doug reflect on some of the topics that rose above the rest in the past 12 months
Police said they had stabilized the situation
Here are the events and technologies the P1 team and our readership viewed as having the most significant impact on the profession in the last decade
Can police, fire and EMS overcome the challenges we faced in the 2010s to prosper in the 2020s?