Sentences with phrase «mass casualty»

I developed base strategic, mass casualty, and disaster plans.

Additional firefighter skills that I have developed include dispatch operations and handling of mass casualty events.

A pervasive, but consistently unfounded trope among conspiracy theorists and «hoaxers» is that any mass casualty incident, particularly mass shootings, are «false flags,» or events engineered by the government in a widespread plot to install an authoritarian global government (often referred to as the «New World Order «-RRB-.

Unfortunately, this most recent climate change mass casualty event may be just one of many.

And at the most extreme end of this spectrum are the heatwave mass casualty events — which this year have been very numerous and widespread.

Search and rescue dogs are a valuable asset in wilderness tracking, natural disasters, mass casualty events, and locating missing people or objects.

While many people believe that mass casualty school attacks are a new phenomenon, there have been many acts of violence including school shootings, arson attacks, school bombings and other acts of extreme violence carried out at both public and non-public schools in the United States dating back to at least 1764.

Attackers have used firearms, knives, gasoline, swords, clubs, hatchets, explosives, a homemade flamethrower and other weapons to carry out mass casualty school attacks around the globe as far back as 1764.

A casual conversation at a technology conference became the catalyst to St. John Ambulance (SJA) and Pathways partnering to develop Canada's first 360 °, virtual reality eLearning module - a simulated mass casualty event, filmed at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, BC.

While the first module has been designed for first responders to a simulated mass casualty event, Pathways Managing Partner Kurt Tiltack believes it will be used for much more.

«Hence, American television medical dramas tend to rely on storylines that feature rare diseases, odd presentations of common diseases, fantastic and / or quirky injuries, and mass casualty events, all framed within a «realistic» representation of a typical U.S. hospital,» they noted.

A new system aims to speed up the triage of victims during mass casualty incidents: Instead of colored paper tags, first responders use colored electronic wristbands.

In mass casualty incidents, triage of the victims must be performed as quickly as possible, in order to evacuate and take them to appropriate hospitals.

«First responders at a mass casualty incident could deploy the hydrogel while patients wait for their injuries to be completely repaired by an ocular surgeon in appropriate microsurgical facilities,» he says.

In response to active shooter and mass casualty incidents such as the one at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012, the Hartford Consensus and the White House's Stop the Bleed campaign have sought to train civilians in hemorrhage control techniques so that bystanders can serve as immediate responders in the case of uncontrolled hemorrhage.

A mass casualty incident?

The state grant will help Rockland County be better prepared in case of an attack or mass casualty incident.

Four people were taken by ambulance to Syracuse hospitals yesterday afternoon after emergency crews declared a «mass casualty incident» at a food distribution center in Van Buren.

Officially, it's called a «cold storage mass casualty trailer.»

The idea that a mass casualty perpetrator is likely to be suffering from mental illness is consistent with the research on lone actors conducted by Paul Gill, John Horgan, Emily Corner and others.

«The warning will probably suffice in dissuading the Assad regime from conducting another mass terror, mass casualty attack on civilians using chemical weapons,» Hof wrote on Tuesday.

The U.S. State Department said reports of mass casualties from an alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma were «horrifying».

Allegations of Assad's chlorine use have been frequent during the war although, unlike nerve agents, chlorine did not produce mass casualties as seen last week.

It also lets government officials off the hook from doing the hard work needed to prevent mass casualties from future storms.

Nevertheless, the mass casualties inspired the Church of England to adopt some sort of prayer for the dead, which originally had been one of the more noticeable differences between Catholics and Protestants.

«I think to actually get into dialogue with people who at the moment don't seem to have any aim other than causing mass casualties, no clear way ahead, I think would be wrong,» he said.

Such an option has its limitations, but it may at times be the only way to prevent further mass casualties.

Moreover putting them in proximity to population centers is actually a plus, because such an attack would provoke world outrage at the mass casualties and insure a swift and truly violent response from allies.

In other words, given the high level of know - how needed to use disease as a weapon to cause mass casualties, the United States should be less concerned that terrorists will become biologists and far more concerned that biologists will become terrorists.

Stiff, dull mourning crape would never return to popularity; even the mass casualties of World War I did not improve sales figures for the fabric.

Years after the incident on the Golden Gate Bridge, the world has turned to darkness as mass casualties have nearly eradicated the human race.

The collateral damage attending their world - saving exploits against the villainous likes of the terrorist Hydra organization and the rampaging robot Ultron — smashed cities, mass casualties — have the world demanding that the brakes be put on these too - powerful do - gooders.

The nation is transfixed by a stain on a blue dress, while, within the airless halls of government, men and women are treating life - and - death decisions, decisions that we know, down the road, will result in mass casualties, as a kind of perverse game of keep - away.

It is loud and in your face with moments of brutal intimacy and disconnected mass casualties once again furthering the notion that most death is random and dealt with alone, even when killed among the crowd.

Kids have always divided into cliques and subjected the nonconforming to verbal and physical abuse; only recently, it seemed, had the social drama of high school resulted in mass casualties.

It's our view that victim compensation funds are far more appropriate where there is no discernable wrongdoer capable of compensating for mass casualties - a wrongdoer that should be held accountable in court, like BP.

Not exact matches

And after prevailing in some recent mass - casualty clashes, it now controls more territory along the border than ever.

Designating a lead detective to be responsible for victims» families might suffice for double or triple homicides, but for mass - casualty events a point person with specialized training who remains with gathered families throughout a crisis should be the norm.

With Congress failing to pass more than 100 gun control bills as the number of casualties from mass shootings piles up, it's easy for gun control advocates to think nothing will be accomplished.

Millions of pilgrims pour into the Iraqi shrine city of Karbala for the peak of commemorations for Ashura today, the most important day in the Shiite calendar, with security tight following mass - casualty attacks in previous years.

In World War II, the usual practice was to bulldoze Ja panese casualties into hastily dug mass graves, with no services whatsoever.

A development towards an increase in mass - casualty attacks means more complicated rescue operations and puts higher demands on organisations» crisis management.

One of the largest mass extinctions of animal life on record, the casualty list includes large crocodile - like reptiles and several marine invertebrates.

If not personally affected, they are indirectly affected by the casualties of our culture: mass shootings, natural disasters, violence, illness, and overall uncertainty about the future.

I developed and was granted an American patent for an artificial heart and lung for neonates, then I was asked to take care again of acquaintance nutrition problems in the US, I did this consultation on saturdays, with the presentation in 2006 then my main concern in the US is to see a food regulation to prevent diseases and with the casualties growing to take the technology for rescue to mass production and market to save innocent lives.

Violent video games are played the world over, yet perennial mass - casualty shootings are a uniquely American problem.

This includes data visualizations from civilian casualties in the drone war, video documentation from acts of terrorism, tracking the impact of invasive species on local ecosystems and crime scene studies from mass shootings.

Finally, I don't see why if I'm concerned with making investment decisions in the face of uncertainty I should be spending so much more effort on climate change than the possibility of nuclear war, mass - casualty terrorism, supervolcanos, or mega-earthquakes.

The mass mortality event at Christmas Island is believed to be one of the worst casualties of the ongoing global bleaching event.

Scientists believe that the mass die - off around Kiritimati — also known as Christmas Island — is one of the worst casualties in a larger coral bleaching event that's taking place all over the world.