July 2012 – For emergency managers, events such as these
are mass casualty events. There will be a regional response
from all first responders, police and emergency medical
technicians. Hospitals will need to gear up to receive
victims, the dispatching of patients to multiple hospitals will
need to be orchestrated by a Hospital Control entity. In
this case the event happened late at night. Command staff
are not present and it is important that those on duty have the
training and knowledge to respond to a larger event and initiate
proper command and control procedures.
