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.
M.A.R.C.H. is a guide for early intervention and care for life-threatening bleeding, airway compromise and inadequate breathing
Even if a detailed plan for every contingency isn’t possible, just having the idea of what might happen can lessen the shock and improve response
Public safety leaders reflect on the 21st anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks and the legacy of 9/11 in the emergency services
Police executives have collectively failed to teach officers how to assess a mass casualty threat and, more important, what to do about it
The man’s injuries bring the total number of people shot during the July 28 shooting to 17
An untold, large number of people may be coming to Lincoln County, Nev. in late September, with some perhaps unhinged enough to try and take on the military
Paul A. Steber, a 19-year-old freshman from Boston attending High Point University, was arrested Tuesday
Thomas Matthew McVicker was apprehended in Indianapolis before the plan could be carried out
Up to 29 charter schools recently reported they have no long-term plan for having an armed guard on campus as required by law
The anxiety of one mass shooting after another has led some churches to start training and arming their worshippers with guns
They said they wanted to reflect the son they knew and weren’t trying to “minimize horror of his last act”
Police Commissioner Richard Ross expressed amazement that the standoff, which began Wednesday when LEOs attempted to serve a warrant, ended with no one dead
White supremacist ideology is helping fuel domestic terrorism in the United States, the head of Homeland Security said Tuesday
Police believe the shooting lasted 32 seconds, with officers engaging the shooter about halfway through
The post that led to Richard Dean Clayton’s arrest took place one day after the mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso
In one plan, Conor Climo said he would firebomb a Las Vegas synagogue followed by a “light infantry weapon attack”
A friend of the Dayton gunman who killed nine people told federal agents he bought him body armor, a gun accessory and a 100-round magazine earlier this year
AG Barr staunchly defended the work of LE Monday while also taking aim at some prosecutors
A special task force recommended the idea as one piece of an overall plan designed to keep students safe
Patrick Crusius, 21, emerged with his hands up from a vehicle that was stopped at an intersection shortly after last Saturday’s attack and told officers, “I’m the shooter”
Authorities say his motive isn’t known but he had been interested in conflicting violent ideologies
Video shows the bouncer holding the front door open and waving in or pulling people inside Ned Peppers bar as the shooter got closer
A man “full of anger” stabbed, slashed and robbed his way across two Southern California cities in a bloody rampage
CBP Tornillo Port Director Donna Sifford was shopping on her day off when a gunman entered the store and began shooting
Sen. Richard Blumenthal said there’s “a growing wave of support on both sides of the aisle” for the red-flag plan
Shooter Santino William Legan, 19, appeared to be interested in conflicting ideologies, but authorities still have not determined a motive
Gov. Mike DeWine said Ohio needs to do more while balancing people’s rights to own firearms
The discounter has long dealt with violent crimes at its stores across the country
Matthew DeSarno, special agent in charge of the Dallas Field Office, said law enforcement was able to work together to “find a solution that protected the public from harm”
Some former classmates said the shooter was suspended in high school for compiling a “hit list” of those he wanted to kill and a “rape list” of girls he wanted to sexually assault
Officers stopped the suspect moments before he entered a bar
Speaking at the White House on Monday, President Donald Trump condemned the two attacks
The federal government is also investigating the attack with a view toward bringing federal hate crime charges
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