How do you respond to a terrorist attack?

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Posted: 9/6/2005 10:22:53 AM EDT

We're a site full of mostly aware and prepared people, in varying degrees. We also know that certain emergencies cannot be planned for, nor will any preparations make a difference in our survival.
One of these is a suicide bombing. If you're too close to the exploding bomb, you're dead.
But hold the phone!
In every bombing, there are a number of dead and a much larger number of people who survived, and outside the injure radius, confused and scared people just milling around.
Understanding that if you survive a bombing, you will be very valuable if you are able to tend to the wounded. Even basic first aid will be much better than just standing there.
Nobody can help the people who were inside the kill radius. But swift attention can save a lot of people who were in the injure radius.

Posted: 9/6/2005 10:24:56 AM EDT

[#1]

One of the reasons I completed a First Responder program this summer and start EMT this fall.

My CPR knowledge (decades ago) was way outta date.

Check with your local community college for classes, they are VERY inexpensive, and potentially invaluable.

Posted: 9/6/2005 10:27:20 AM EDT

[#2]

Yep.

Posted: 9/6/2005 10:29:33 AM EDT

[#3]

Help as you are able - Just recall that a favorite tactic right now in Iraq as well as Israel is to set one bomb off, then wait for the emergency responders to show up and then detonate another one in their midst.

Posted: 9/6/2005 10:31:24 AM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Help as you are able - Just recall that a favorite tactic right now in Iraq as well as Israel is to set one bomb off, then wait for the emergency responders to show up and then detonate another one in their midst.

How do you go about defending yourself against that?

Posted: 9/6/2005 10:32:24 AM EDT

[#5]

Given the proclivity of "real" terrorist to place secondary explosives in close proximity to the first explosion, in order to take out the first responders.

Why would one be rushing to help out?

(don't get me wrong I tend toward wearing the good Samaritan hat myself, but wondered if this is factor into your query)

Mike

Posted: 9/6/2005 10:32:37 AM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Help as you are able - Just recall that a favorite tactic right now in Iraq as well as Israel is to set one bomb off, then wait for the emergency responders to show up and then detonate another one in their midst.
How do you go about defending yourself against that?

Stay low, be cautious and observant. Enter the scene like a dynamic entry.

But if a secondary goes off.......

Posted: 9/6/2005 10:32:41 AM EDT

[#7]

Ignore all the facts and blame President Bush.

R.

Posted: 9/6/2005 10:34:06 AM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Given the proclivity of "real" terrorist to place secondary explosives in close proximity to the first explosion, in order to take out the first responders.

Why would one be rushing to help out?

(don't get me wrong I tend toward wearing the good Samaritan hat myself, but wondered if this is factor into your query)

Mike

When I posed the question, I forgot about the secondaries.

Posted: 9/6/2005 10:41:12 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Given the proclivity of "real" terrorist to place secondary explosives in close proximity to the first explosion, in order to take out the first responders.

Why would one be rushing to help out?

(don't get me wrong I tend toward wearing the good Samaritan hat myself, but wondered if this is factor into your query)

Mike
When I posed the question, I forgot about the secondaries.

I'm starting to doubt that you are a real ninja.

Posted: 9/6/2005 10:44:05 AM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Help as you are able - Just recall that a favorite tactic right now in Iraq as well as Israel is to set one bomb off, then wait for the emergency responders to show up and then detonate another one in their midst.
How do you go about defending yourself against that?

That's just it, I don't see how you could.

Strictly IMHO... You grab your family and the closest few people that will listen (chances are they're in shock and assuming you aren't as well and have your wits about you, they should hopefully listen to sharp verbal commands) and lead them away from where the bomb went off and await the authorities/medical personnel should anyone need patching up.

I personally don't know what more you could do.