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.
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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
The gunman was killed by police less than a minute after he started shooting
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called the shooting “a heinous and senseless act of violence”
The gunman who opened fire on a California food festival killed himself after officers shot him multiple times
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This timely and important event is a significant cross-disciplinary training opportunity for all public safety personnel
The 19-year-old gunman who opened fire at a Northern California food festival was “kind of a loner” and much of his life was shrouded in mystery, the FBI said
While authorities are still seeking a motive for the killings, the gunman had posted white supremacist views
Several victims of the shooting late Saturday had gang histories, including the man who was killed
The shooter cut through a fence and opened fire on a crowd, killing three people, including a 6-year-old boy, and wounding about 15 others
The shooting erupted just as the crowd at the annual Old Timers Event in the Brownsville neighborhood was beginning to disperse Saturday
Man shot multiple people Thursday during a deadly 12-hour rampage across Los Angeles’ sprawling San Fernando Valley
It is important for law enforcement and other public safety personnel to know how to carry an injured person efficiently and effectively over distance
San Jose’s emergency action plan calls for deploying FirstNet to both first responders and other city agencies like transportation and public works
The agency provides 93 recommendations in a newly released after-action review
The Secret Service studied 27 incidents where a total of 91 people were killed and 107 more injured in public spaces in 2018
How to leverage nontraditional resources to assist law enforcement operations
The lawsuit is the latest case to challenge a federal law shielding gun manufacturers from liability
Union does not believe the officer should have been fired and is fighting to get him reinstated
The network separates public safety communications traffic from commercial traffic and supports functions like priority and preemption
It takes a community to help a troubled kid – before they shoot up a school
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Defense attorney Joseph DiRuzzo III said Scot Peterson is being made a scapegoat
Implementing a flexible response policy is key to effective management of critical events
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