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
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
President Obama rejected a bill that would have allowed the 9/11 victims’’ families to sue the Saudi Arabian government, arguing it undermined national security
Authorities are looking for the gunman who shot and killed three people at a mall north of Seattle
An effective rescue task force response to reduce active shooter casualties starts with planning and training between all public safety responders
In a handwritten journal, Ahmad Khan Rahami warned that bombs would resound in the streets and prayed he’d be martyred rather than caught
The Islamic State-run news agency claimed the attacker was a “soldier of the Islamic State”
The motive of Saturday’s attack is still unclear, but the FBI is investigating it as a “potential act of terrorism” and ISIS claimed responsibility
NJ police were responding to a call of a man sleeping in a doorway, believed to be Ahmad Khan Rahami, when the man opened fire, injuring two officers
A man in a private security uniform stabbed nine people, reportedly mentioning Allah and asking at least one victim if they were Muslim before an off-duty cop shot and killed him
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio called the blast an ‘intentional act,’ but said there was no terrorist connection
SWAT teams should keep a watchful eye on the future in order to prepare for the worst
Regional SWAT teams aren’t for every agency, but they can provide a great service to those who need it
When the public, the press and politicians say police don’t need tanks, these strategies can help you make that critical purchase
The radicalized lone-actor who resides in the United States is an increasing threat
Many trainers are either forgetting a very important element of active shooter tactical response or are simply unaware of it
Audio recordings of 911 calls were released Tuesday
The officers tracked the suspects and prevailed in a gun battle, preventing the attackers from doing further harm and rescuing a fellow LEO in the effort
The man who shot and killed three people was so unfamiliar with his newly purchased AR-15 that he parked his car across the street and read the manual
Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said in a statement Sunday that his department is working to identify and arrest the person responsible for the shootings
Police officials piecing together a portrait of the shooter said he was seeing a doctor up to last month for treatment of depression and psychiatric problems
It was not immediately clear what triggered the violence
The video shows a deputy helping a Pulse patron escape
