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THREAT PREP
AGAINST A BACKDROP OF SHOOTINGS ACROSS
THE COUNTRY, A NEW NFPA COMMITTEE BEGINS
WORK TO CREATE A STANDARD FOR RESPONDING
TO ACTIVE SHOOTERS AND HOSTILE EVENTS
By Angelo Verzoni
ot long after the sun rose on June
14, Republican members of Congress
were practicing for a charity baseball game at a park in Alexandria,
Virginia, when the fun turned to
terror. A man armed with a rifle and handgun,
reportedly embittered by President Trump's election win, opened fire on the lawmakers. Capitol
police officers fired back, wounding him, and the
man later died from his injuries. House majority
whip Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana) was critically
injured in the shooting. Later that day, almost
3,000 miles away in San Francisco, a man shot and
killed three of his coworkers at a United Parcel
Service facility before turning the gun on himself.
Both incidents fell on the first day of the first
technical committee meeting for NFPA 3000,
Preparedness and Response to Active Shooter and/
or Hostile Events. The tragic coincidence illustrates the need for such a standard to guide first
responders through active shooter events and similar attacks, which often unfold in rapid, complex,
and chaotic ways.
While active shooter events aren't a new phenomenon in the United States, data shows they're
becoming more frequent. According to FBI statistics, an average of 6.4 active shooter events occurred
annually in the U.S. from 2000 to 2006. From 2007
to 2013, that average more than doubled, to 16.4.
Common
Language
A primary goal
of NFPA 3000
is to help disparate
responding agencies
communicate
with each other
clearly and
effectively during
hostile events.
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From 2014 to 2015, it climbed to 20. "All of those
incidents were the genesis for this [standard],"
said Richard Serino, former deputy administrator and chief operating officer of the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), who
has been named the chair of the NFPA 3000 technical committee. "We have been talking about
this after each incident, and after each one it has
gained more momentum." Serino, who before
heading FEMA worked in Boston EMS for 36
years, also pointed to attacks like the Boston Marathon bombing as catalysts for the development
of the standard.
More precisely, the standard traces its roots
to the June 12, 2016, Pulse nightclub shooting in
Orlando. The incident, where an American-born
security guard who aligned himself with the
Islamic State relentlessly executed 49 people
trapped inside a crowded nightclub, was the
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