"Many response professionals perceive convergent responders in a negative light. They are viewed as undisciplined and in the way." (40). However, the text goes on to say that convergent agencies - such as utility crews and postal workers - with training, are a positive initial response component. But I don't think they can and need to be trained for terrorism/tactical violence. Sure they should at least have a basic awareness th

"...beware of diversions; there's no rule against having two simultaneous terrorism/tactical violence events on a very bad day." (48). September 11th was a very bad day indeed. Only after the 2nd plane crashed did people begin to realize that this was an act of terrorism. All the plane crashes that took place support the statement. We didn't have 2 simultaneous violent events, we had 4.

The text also talks about "2 in 2 out". It says that this concept is fairly new in fire service. I find that hard to believe. It doesn't make sense that only one fireman would enter a hot zone. It just makes sense that there are 2 of them, to serve as help and as a lookout. It's like the saying goes, "Two brains are better than one." Besides, do you really see and first resp

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Awareness EMS, , Scenes Surprises, terrorism/tactical violence, convergent responder, text talks, agency focused, safe distance, convergent agencies, bad day,
Approximate Word count = 513
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)