Author: Mark Wallace, Susan Brightmire
Date Published: September 1999
Publisher: Fire Engineering
Keywords: Columbine, school, mass shooting, fire department response n
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Author: Joe Walter
Date Published: June 1998
Publisher: Fire Engineering
Keywords: Initiative 9, violent incidents, lessons-learned case studies
Author: Thomas C. Lakamp
Date Published: December 2001
Publisher: Fire Engineering
Keywords: Initiative 9, violent incidents, lessons-learned case studies, civil disturbance
Author: Smolsky, Matt
Date Published: 2001
Publisher: National Fire Academy Executive Fire Officer Program
Keywords: Initiative 1, executive response management, Initiative 12, school violence, integrated incident man
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Date Published: February 13, 2004
Publisher: NIOSH F2004-11
Keywords: Initiative 9, fatality/injury investigation
Author: National Fallen Firefighters Foundation
Date Published: October 2012
Publisher: National Fallen Firefighters Foundation
Keywords: None
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Date Published: December 2012
Publisher: National Fallen Firefighters Foundation
Keywords: None

Do you know the nine questions you should ask that could help keep you and your firefighters out of harm’s way in a potentially violent situation? As the tragic events in Webster, NY showed, not every violent incident can be anticipated.
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Nine Questions You Should Ask article, January 13, 2013

They are mostly known by a single name: Columbine, Virginia Tech, 9-11, and now, Newtown and Webster. These significant events, shootings, violence of unfathomable magnitude can take years to overcome, if ever.