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.
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
The ability to ensure that command, control, communication, computation and information is harnessed in one place is of paramount importance for public safety
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
A man who gunned down a Southwest Airlines employee outside of Oklahoma City’s airport likely killed the victim in retaliation
All of the victims were stabbed at least once and were being treated for their injuries at local hospitals
A man who entered a mental health facility stabbed six people before he was shot by police and taken into custody
Videos show officers going inside where gunman Omar Mateen had barricaded himself in a bathroom, while others offer details about what was happening outside
Recent mass emergency response events have emphasized the importance of equipping police with proper first aid training and equipment
Responding officers were tending to the victims when the gunman opened fire with an assault rifle
The shooting “had nothing to do with the ballot or voting”
As tactical teams move to the role of support units during an active shooter incident, the Rescue Task Force concept is evolving to become a key part of MCI response
Police negotiators talking to the Orlando nightclub gunman at first weren’t sure if the person they had on the phone was actually in the Pulse nightclub
The suspect is seen being questioned by an officer before he calls for backup
Officer James Creed was off duty on May 10 when Arthur DaRosa went on his rampage at a local mall
Two officers who fatally shot a machete-wielding man in Oct. were trapped in a stairwell with the suspect, giving many commands before firing their weapons
Officer Franklin Kho said he didn’t deliberately hit the protesters but was trying to drive away because they were hitting the vehicle with wooden clubs
Police should be trained in hemorrhage control and have tourniquets on them at all times
LAPD Sgt. Frank Preciado tells The Los Angeles Times that the restaurant was “a bloody scene with shell casings everywhere”
The families were seeking to hold Remington accountable for selling what their lawyers called a semi-automatic rifle that is too dangerous for the public
Dr. Eileen Bulger believes that bystanders need to be able to stop severe bleeding caused by acts of terrorism and other public violence
Simultaneous terrorist attacks are today’s reality, planning and training your police department for an effective response will save lives
One graphic video shows a bloody Dahir Ahmed Adan crawling and trying to get up after he was shot six times by an off-duty officer
The “Patriots Day” trailer gives audiences a glimpse into the world of police officers who responded to the bombing
Learning from an event and applying those lessons in training will improve your department’s future response
As the small city an hour north of Seattle struggled to make sense of the carnage, an unsettling portrait emerged of the man authorities say was the shooter
A disgruntled lawyer wearing military-style apparel with old Nazi emblems had more than 2,500 rounds of live ammo when he randomly shot at drivers in a Houston neighborhood
Arcan Cetin had a string of run-ins with the law in recent years
A disgruntled lawyer who had numerous weapons randomly shot at drivers in a Houston neighborhood Monday morning