NFPA Journal - Summer 2023 - 22
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNES S
STRENGTH IN
NUMBERS
Following a pandemic-induced hiatus,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, resumes its pioneering
effort to create a community-wide plan for
addressing hostile events using NFPA 3000
BY STEPHANIE SCHOROW
T
22 | NFPA JOURNAL * SUMMER 2023
he city of Augusta, Georgia, is best
known for hosting the annual
Master's Tournament, one of the
four major championships in professional
golf. And that's what the
city's emergency services, civic
and business groups, hospitals,
and educators fervently hope
Augusta will always be known for.
But consider Uvalde, Texas, or Parkland, Florida,
or Newtown, Connecticut, just a few of the hundreds
of communities across the country inextricably
linked with horrific incidents of violence, most of
them mass shootings. As the frequency of these
events increases in the United States, so too does the
growing list of afflicted communities. According to
the Gun Violence Archive (gunviolencearchive.org),
an independent data collection and research group,
the number of mass shootings in the United States
has increased from 273 in 2014 to 646 in 2022, with
a high of 690 in 2021. This year, as of mid-April, the
archive had documented nearly 150 mass shootings
across the country.
Although no one can predict where or when the
next incident of mass violence will occur, Augusta is
preparing for something its citizens hope will never
happen. A coalition of first responders, civic and
faith leaders, medical professionals, educators, and
citizens has formed in an effort to make the city
one of the first in the country to implement NFPA
3000, Standard for an Active Shooter/Hostile Event
Response (ASHER) Program, a standard designed
to give communities a framework to prepare for,
respond to, and recover from an array of hostile
events. The effort has been tagged with the moniker
#StrongAugusta to emphasize its focus on being
prepared for such an event.
" After Boston, after Las Vegas, after Orlando,
after Buffalo, after Uvalde, you see the communities
coming together, and typically the stamp that's
put on those efforts is #Bostonstrong, #Orlandostrong,
#Buffalostrong, and so on, " said John Ryan,
COURTESY AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY
http://www.gunviolencearchive.org
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