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Critical Incident Response To Suicide
Bomber Terrorism Threat
Length of Seminar:
2 Days
Instructor: Gerald Sheehan
Course Overview:
This two (2) day training module will prepare the
attendee to recognize the types of bombs and respond to
improvised explosive devices used by suicide bombers who
attempt to cause mass destruction and mass casualties.
FBI reports 70% of terrorist incidents involve explosive
devices.
Between 1990—1995 FBI data reveals 10,122 actual bombings,
resulting in 355 deaths and 3,176 injuries.
Suicide bombers may use many various types of improvised
explosive devices. The term “Improvised Explosive
Device” (IED) is used to describe various types of
devices that have been constructed or manufactured in an
improvised manner to include assorted types of energetic
material.
Response To Suicide
Bombings:
The onset of an emergency creates a need for time-sensitive
actions to save lives and property, as well as action to
begin stabilizing the situation so that the jurisdiction
can regroup. Such response actions include notifying emergency
management personnel of the crisis, warning and evacuating
or sheltering the population, if possible, keeping the population
informed, rescuing individuals and providing medical treatment,
maintaining the rule of law, assessing damage, addressing
mitigation issues that arise from response activities, and
even requesting help from outside the jurisdiction.
Vulnerability Assessment:
Pre-Planning in advance of possible targets in your community.
Types of buildings, federal, state, local, types of utilities,
electrical power plants, and mass transit systems.
Designing (EOP) Emergency Operation Plans specific to these
targets, evacuation, hospital preparedness, equipment needs
for response procedures.
Recovery:
Recovery is the effort to restore infrastructure and social
and economic life of a community to normal, but it should
incorporate mitigation as a goal. For the short term, recovery
may mean bringing necessary lifeline systems (e.g., power,
communication, water and sewage, and transportation) up
to an acceptable standard while providing for basic human
needs (e.g., food, clothing, and shelter) and ensuring that
the societal needs of individuals and the community are
met (e.g., maintain the rule of law, provide crisis counseling,
demonstrate that people do care and that help is becoming
available). Once some stability is achieved, the jurisdiction
can begin recovery efforts for the long term, restoring
economic activity and rebuilding community facilities and
family housing with attention to long-term mitigation needs.
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