Responding to 'Routine' Incidents at Large-Event Venues

摘要

In the post-9/11 era, the majority of planning and operations relating to large-venue response has been focused on terrorism or a deliberate criminal act. Ensuring crowd security from a threat such as a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) or a Mumbai-style active shooter attack tends to take the lead for large-venue planning. These types of criminal incidents fall into the low-frequency/high-risk category. The types of incidents that can get overlooked are those many firefighters brush off as "routine" responses-e.g., vehicle fires, medical incidents, and fire alarms. However, there is nothing routine about responding to a vehicle fire in a parking lot outside of a stadium filled with 100,000 people. There is nothing routine about trying to find a patient in cardiac arrest at a golf course that has been converted to an event parking site where the only location description the caller can provide is "a golf course by some large trees."