Sandy Hook, Boston, Las Vegas, Parkland and Pittsburgh. Those locations now have secondary meanings; mass casualty events. Each having their own community impact and recovery process.
Response plans are created during the calm and quiet of a work day. A variety of exercises are conducted to test those plans and modify them accordingly to meet their operational goals and needs.
These plans use real world lessons to help frame and update response protocols.
Public Safety agencies involved can be police, fire, EMS & OEM. Steve Crimando, internationally recognized crisis management and trauma consultant, refers to these exercises as “Stop the Killing and Stop the Dying”. You see them on the news… SWAT or a rapid response unit responds to an active shooter/hostile event call. They enter the building/area to locate and/or neutralize the threat actor(s).
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