During and after the Las Vegas Massacre on October 1st the Las Vegas Fire Department responds to WHY they thought there were multiple shooters. Clark County Fire Department holds a conference on response to Las Vegas massacre. Chief Greg Cassell of the CCFD just announced these main points moments ago:
- Dozens of initial 911 calls made it seem like there were multiple shootings
- Victims broke through fences and fled onto airport property
- We wanted to calm the chaos when things were going south
- We were able to handle it because of our training, our equipment and our people
- He asked the reporters to please not overwhelm the men as they are back today after a traumatic experience
- One of the first departments in the Nation to deploy mass response plan
- 16 Rescue task forces were deployed night of attack
- 160 Firefighters responded to the scene Sunday night
- Have been building a mass response policy for several years
- Radio traffic was pretty jumbled
- Responding crews encountered patients en route to scene
- We had trample injuries, injuries from climbing walls and high-powered rifle wounds
- 10 years ago more people would’ve died because of a lack of coordination
- Reports of multiple shooters complicated the response
- Fire Dispatchers did a tremendous job fielding all the calls
Chief Greg Cassell ended with a plea to the Media …”Please, please be gentle on my people, they are not PR trained.” he said.
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Control center of the fire department. Emergency call center
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