Open AccessInto the Warm Zone: Essential Elements and Considerations for Developing Warm Zone Capabilities
Author(s) -
Sam Miletta
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of high threat and austere medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2652-2241
DOI - 10.33553/jhtam.v3i1.32
Subject(s) - las vegas , terrorism , agency (philosophy) , action (physics) , scholarship , mass casualty , political science , computer security , meteorology , geography , computer science , sociology , law , tourism , social science , physics , medical emergency , medicine , quantum mechanics
In 2017, a scholarship funded study tour was undertaken to learn how agencies in the United States of America were addressing a capability gap in relation to accessing, treatment and rescue of victims located in the warm zone of Active Shooter Hostile Events. Since this initial trip a number of after action reports and reviews of such incidents have been released. This paper explores the key learnings from these events to establish several essential elements and important considerations for the development of multi-agency warm zone capabilities. The incidents looked at are the:
2013 LAX Airport Active Shooter
2015 San Bernardino Terrorist Attack
2016 Pulse Nightclub Terrorist Attack
2017 Las Vegas Mass Shooting