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TERRORIST RISING 3
Terrorist Rising
Columbia Southern University
Running head: TERRORIST RISING 1
Specific Goal: I will show how I will be a resource to help save
thousands of people in an attack.
Introduction
I. Summarize the attack and establish resources and support
a. Transport victims to medical facilities
b. Avoid having an EMS that is not prepared for a mass attack
(Sollid, et al., 2011)
c. Determine the needs of the injured and send them to correct
facility
II. Establish a framework for recovery.

a. Determine what facility the initial casualties will be sent to.
b. Where will the casualties be buried (Commonweal, 2001)
Thesis
When terrorist attack a populated area; emergency responders
can be used successfully.
Body
I. What assets will be needed to penetrate ground zero?
a. Establishing an incident command center to inventory all
resources
b. Create a plan to enter the structure without harming anyone
II. Part of the structure is ablaze as well as neighboring areas
a. Method of getting emergency vehicles in to put out the fires
b. Protecting the team and equipment that will be sent in
III. After parts of the area are becoming secure SWAT and EMS
will be sent in.
a. Timeline of the deployment of the teams is critical to save
lives
III. How does the media alerts terrorists?
a. Using the media to assist us instead of allowing them to be a
hindrance
b. Not allowing the media to magnify the terrorist propaganda
(Biernatzki, 2002)
IV. Once the entire location has become secure rescue and
recovery efforts become vital.
a. Tending to the wounded and setting up temporary treatment
locations
b. Local physicians and nurses can be called out as volunteers
(Silverman, 2001)
V. Evacuate all remaining visitors, employees, players, etc.
a. Setting up evacuation routes and methods of transportation
b. Being sure not to tamper any evidence on the crime scene in
the process
VI. Determining the temporary placement of remaining
causalities.
a. Utilizing all nearby hospitals, clinics, and urgent care
facilities

b. Alerting all Oakland metropolitan morticians, examiners,
forensics, etc. to assist
VII. Since an attack of this level can occur; react to this
incident to be proactive for the next.
a. Create a large scale Emergency Action Plan
b. Preventative measures to alert the authorities of possible
attacks
c. Planning the long road of recovery from the attack (Lenain,
2002)
Conclusion
I. I intend to establish the methods for a successful halt the
attack, rescue survivors, recovery the causalities, and restore
the city.
a. Determining the method to breach the structure
b. Taking control of the area, removing people, and tending to
all that need help
c. Planning the road to recovery
References
Biernatzki, W. E. (2002). II. Mass media: collaborators with
terrorists? Communication Research Trends, 21(1), 5+.
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Running head: TERRORISM INCIDENT MANAGEMENT 1
TERRORISM INCIDENT MANAGEMENT 2
Terrorism Incident Management

Allison Kerley
Columbia Southern University
Terrorism Incident Management
For starters, this hypothetical situation is indeed very
grim. It is day two of an ongoing negotiation between the
government and terrorists at the O.co Coliseum in Oakland
California. This initiative is made possible by a recent
injunction by the US president to allow for direct negotiations
with terrorists in cases where hostages are involved (Boyer,
2015). The BC, who are a California based revolutionary
terrorist organization have besieged the O.co Coliseum with
approximately 40,000 people who were attending the August
18th Oakland Athletics home game and an additional number of
innocent bystanders and security personnel. 35,000 of this
figure are spectators. The number of casualties is already very
high not to mention the number of potential victims. Two-
hundred security guards along with fifty police officers who
were manning the game and hundreds of game fans are either
dead or wounded. The sheer number of terrorists that are
involved, i.e. 153, is just stupefying. They are well-armed with
high-powered rifles, explosives, automatic weapons, and ample
supplies. Speculations are that they have booby-trapped the
Coliseum’s interior with explosives. Their goal, which is to
compel the government to subdivide the county of California
into three distinct states is equally mind-boggling. They seek to
contain as many people as possible within the Coliseum. Ten
terrorists are reportedly dead. They were killed in a crossfire
with the police.
I oversee the operations of all the assets belonging to the
Fire Department and the Emergency Response Services (EMS),
which involves coordination with the clinics, hospitals, and the
USNS Comfort. The Comfort is birthed outside San Leandro
Bay. A State of Emergency has been declared, consequently
enabling me to receive all the necessary resources. Several
victims have managed to escape from the Coliseum, and many

of these persons have sustained grave injuries. Armored
vehicles from the California National Guard and surrounding
agencies have been parked in a semi-circular formation around
the Coliseum to give cover to victims trying to swim across to
safety and also to the law enforcement officials. I have already
coordinated with the clinics, local hospitals, and the US Navy
has released the USNS Comfort. The O.co Coliseum and its
vicinity have consequently become ground zero.
With this information at hand, my first task will be to pinpoint a
safe zone to set up the EMS teams. I will direct the EMS to set
up casualty collection points (CCP) within the 180-degree
perimeter about the Coliseum and near enough to the site of the
carnage to aid the escapees, but just out of reach of the
terrorists’ fire. A CCP, which is also referred to as a field
treatment site, is a locality in a jurisdiction that is employed for
the assembly, sorting, stabilization, and sequential casualty
evacuation (Disaster Dictionary, 2009). This placement will
ensure the safety of the health workers as they attend to the
wounded victims who are streaming from the Coliseum. The
CCP guidelines direct that each hospital is to be assigned one
CCP and a second alternate site. The respective hospital is in
charge of setting up, staffing, and furnishing this point (Haynes
& Freeman, 1989). Prior evaluations to address the numbers of
paraprofessional and professional personnel available at each
point will be carried out. The emergency alert stations will
request volunteer medical practitioners to report to the closest
CCP facilities as soon as possible. For this scenario, the CCPs
will be chosen based on the ability to keep the area secure and
the ease of access for casualties.
Medical personnel will call out through speakers to all who are
in need of assistance to carefully make their way to the CCPs to
avoid being shot by stray bullets. This act will sort the patients
out by with the severity of their injuries as well as physically
clear the scene. With only one bridge partially intact and the
sky over the scene full of smoke, the only other viable way to
promptly evacuate the wounded to the medical facilities

available will be via water. The marine ambulances will play a
central role in this instance. It is critical at this point to decide
which casualty goes to what facility. The USNS Comfort is set
to receive several casualties.
Triage will be used in sorting the casualties. Triage is the
procedure for identifying the priority treatments for patients
with regard to the acuteness of their state (Briggs & Grossman,
2012). It efficiently controls the treatments of patients when
there is an insufficient amount of resources to allow for the
immediate treatment of all. The process is employed in almost
all emergencies. Simple triage will be used in the initial stages
of the rescue and will commence before the arrival of
transportation. Simple triage involves the sorting of patients
into two groups, i.e. those who have minor injuries, and those
that are in need of urgent attention and have to be rushed to the
hospital (Machester Triage Group, 2005). The paramedical
personnel at the scene will assess each patient and label them to
identify them, display the findings of the assessment, and
pinpoint the primacy of the patient’s treatment need and
transport out of the area. Triage tags will be used to this end.
The advanced triage will be used in case the number of living
casualties gets very high, and the medical professionals deem
that there are insufficient medical resources to treat all the
injured individuals. Advanced triage is a case where trained
medical practitioners deliberately deny persons that have
sustained serious injuries advanced care as they are unlikely to
live. The scarce resources are directed towards those who have
higher chances of survival to raise it further. It happens where
some patients are doomed to die as a result of the severity of
their wounds notwithstanding medical care. Under such
conditions, medical care accorded to people who are going to
die will be viewed as care denied to others who would have
survived or wholly recovered rather than be disabled had they
received treatment (Briggs & Grossman, 2012).
Once this first lot of patients has been sorted successfully, the
next task will be to select the appropriate medical facility to

transport each patient to with respect to his/her condition. The
first group of patients, i.e. those that are in urgent need of
attention, will be rushed to the nearest hospitals in the area with
the available ambulances. This move will be executed in the
hope that the police will hold the terrorists in that one area so
that they do not spread to the hospitals and wreak havoc there
as well. Patients in an urgent need of attention will be
prioritized for their condition demands so. In case the available
ambulances do not suffice their number, then the other victims
in this category will be transported to the USNS Comfort via
marine ambulances as they wait to be airlifted to the hospitals
and clinics. The choice of the facilities will depend on their
capacity to handle particular emergency situations. My initial
coordination with the various hospitals and clinics helped in the
preparation for the reception of significant numbers of
casualties as well as identify the kind of emergency situation
that each facility could handle. The facilities that can handle all
types of emergencies will be made exclusive to patients in
chronic states so as to maximize their use. The patients with
less severe injuries will be moved to the USNS Comfort and the
other clinics and hospitals that are not designated for the
critically wounded patients.
The media is covering every aspect of the attack. There is a live
coverage of events, and thousands of families that are following
the developments from the safety of their homes are constantly
receiving updates. The media present can see all that is taking
place within the 180-degree perimeter. It is crucial to note that
the live coverage of the events without the Coliseum reaches the
terrorists who are within through the screen sets and radio
devices that are within and were to be used for media
broadcasting. This state affords a perfect loophole through
which the law enforcement can attempt to dupe the terrorists,
based on their level of intelligence and gullibility. To capitalize
on this opportunity firstly, I will firstly place a restriction to
filming within the 180-degree perimeter that has been formed to
give cover to the police and escaping victims. I will ask the

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents to prevent media
coverage within the 180-degree perimeter. I will, after that,
contact the management of all the media groups present at the
scene and instruct them to direct their personnel on ground zero
not to covertly take footage of the activities within the 180-
degree perimeter to deny the terrorists up-to-date information
on the developments without. I will also tell them to instruct
their news anchors on ground zero to deliberately broadcast
false information regarding the progress of the law enforcement
officials in securing the Coliseum, i.e. to report that the police
have made not significant advancement since the incident
began. The motive behind this rationale is to try and get the
terrorists to drop their guard. The vast resources at my
disposable including critical intelligence and powerful
connections will see to it that this communication to the media
fraternity has been effectuated.
The FBI Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team have made
the decision to invade the Coliseum. SWAT teams are US police
units that use military or specialized equipment as well as
tactics (Halberstadt, 1994). They need a direction from me. It is
evident that they will encounter substantial resistance if they
are to advance from the 180-degree perimeter. This fact is so
because there is still an ongoing exchange of fire between the
terrorists and the police and the enemy is well alert here. It will
be wise to maintain the fire at this end to keep the terrorists
busy and distracted and possibly exhaust their ammunition
while a second group of the SWAT team stealthily maneuvers
its way to the opposite end of the Coliseum to make and
intrusion from this there, hoping that they will encounter little
or no resistance. They will move in in three waves. EMS from
the state, city, county, and National Guard agencies will move
in with the third wave of the attack to attend to the casualties
inside the Coliseum. By moving in with the third wave, the
EMS personnel will be sheltered from the heavy terrorist fire
that will ensue in the first and second waves of the assault.
The SWAT teams have made their way into the parking lot and

just discovered that the terrorists had withdrawn into the
interior of the Coliseum. They now need to break a puncture
hole on one of the Coliseum’s sides to gain entry. They have
ruled out using explosives to avoid the possibility of wounding
patrons. Firefighters have been called in to make the breach in
the wall through which the SWAT teams can gain entry into the
interior of the facility. One equipment that the firefighting crew
will employ to make the hole in the wall is battering ram
(enforcer). The enforcer is a manual battering ram that has been
specially designed. It consists of a tubular steel make-device, a
handle, and on the impact end, a steel pad that absorbs the
impact. This machine can exert about three metric tons of force
on walls. It weighs roughly 16 kilograms (PersonalDefenseNet,
2013). SWAT teams will stay on guard as the firefighters make
the breach to respond to any enemy fire that will seek to counter
this operation.
I will call in the firefighting crew from the California
Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to deal with the
vehicles burning all around the Coliseum and emitting smoke
that obstructs the view of the helicopters that are bringing in the
SWAT teams. The four Landing Craft Air Cushions (LCAC)
from Camp Pendleton will bring in the fire trucks and other
heavy equipment necessary to combat the flames through
amphibious landings on the western end of the Coliseum. Large
pumps are staged on this section, and they will supply the water
to the fire trucks. The fire crew will chiefly use their jets and
hoses to spray water on the fire in the parking lot, but fire
extinguishers will be employed in places with live cables. The
police SWAT teams will provide cover as the firemen go about
their assignment. The breach in the Coliseum’s wall is made
finally, and the FBI and police SWAT teams go ahead with their
operation and successfully neutralize the threat.
The aftermath of the incident has left 38,000 casualties with
injuries ranging from dehydration to gunshot wounds and
exposure. My next move will be to send the other EMS teams
into the Coliseum to assess the situation and sort out the

casualties and give first aid to all in need of it. Once this second
lot of casualties has been triaged, the next task will be to
evacuate them promptly. The National Guard has set up
temporary bridges. At this point in time, I have hundreds of
ambulances, a fleet of choppers, and numerous other emergency
vehicles at my disposal. The National Response Framework
calls forth for an integrated effort in handling emergencies. The
five guiding principles that establish its fundamental doctrines
include engaged partnership, adaptable, flexible, and scalable
operational capabilities, tiered response, a oneness of effort via
central command, and readiness to act (US Department of
Homeland Security, 2013). My coordination to evacuate the
38,000 survivors will involve making telephone contacts with
different agencies. I will communicate with the California
Highway Patrol to clear the roads of civilian traffic to allow the
ambulances and other emergency vehicles to have unobstructed
movement as they evacuate the casualties. Additionally, I will
arrange for all the nearby parks, schools, and colleges open
parking lots to be reserved for emergency operations. The
choppers will airlift the critically wounded patients to the
appropriate hospitals as previously designated while others will
be transported to the USNS Comfort.
The management of the dead is amongst the toughest phases of
disaster response because of its profound and long-lasting
effects on the community and the survivors. The Disaster
Manuals and Guidelines Series directs for the establishment of a
team in the Emergency Operations Center that will coordinate
the management of the fallen victims. The primary operational
partners for this team will include the civil defense, local rescue
organizations, local funeral homes, coroners, and morticians,
the military, fire service, and the National Red Cross (PAHO,
2004). I too will set up a team in the Emergency Operations
Center and appoint different persons to be in charge of body
recovery, identification, storage, information and
communication, support for families, and logistics. The 2531
bodies will be ferried to various morgues for identification and

further treatment.
Having in mind the fact that some terrorists have gotten away
with critical intelligence on the manner of response that an
attack of this nature is likely to be met, my next task will be to
prepare, train, and plan for the next probable attack. My first
step will be to set up adequate preventive apparatus that will
seek to deter a reoccurrence of this incident. This initiative will
involve the cooperation of the public members of whom I will
request to be on high alert and inform the police of any unusual
developments in their neighborhoods. I will direct for the
deployment of fully equipped EMS teams and firefighting
personnel and equipment to the venues for future mass
gatherings of this kind with sufficient numbers of both staff and
equipment in reserve. These two groups will have well-armed
security escorts to ensure they will execute their roles
effectively in case of an attack. I will also arrange for the
training of emergency response personnel to handle
considerable number of casualties, which will improve their
effectiveness in dealing with emergency situations that involve
significant numbers of casualties. All in all, the success of any
such rescue operation depends on the cooperation of all the
parties that are involved.
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negotiate directly with terrorists holding hostages. The
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Unit II Annotated Bibliography Open
· Weight: 14% of course grade
· Grading Rubric
Instructions
This assignment is the beginning of a larger project. For this
first phase of the essay paper, you will research the CSU Online
Library for peer-reviewed journal articles that address and
support your position on the provided essay topic. You will
need to read the entire scenario and questions (listed below) to
better choose your peer-reviewed articles. You must include a
paragraph synopsis of each article in APA style.
The annotated bibliography must be at least two pages in length
and contain a minimum of five peer-reviewed journal articles.
All sources used must be referenced. Paraphrased and/or quoted

materials must have accompanying citations in APA style.
Scope of the major project for this course
· Unit II: Create a two-page annotated bibliography.
· Unit IV: Write a two-page outline for your essay paper.
· Unit V: Submit a three- to five-page draft of your essay paper.
· Unit VII: Submit your 10-page final essay.
Project Scenario and Questions
The Scenario:
The Oakland Athletics home game at O.co Coliseum, 7000
Coliseum Way, Oakland, CA 94621, is held on August 18th in
the middle of one of the hottest summers on record in
California. On this particular day, the high is 110 degrees. In
attendance are approximately 35,000 spectators and 5,000
players, team staff members, support staff, coliseum employees,
and venders for a total of around 40,000 people in an area of
about 157 acres. O.co Coliseum is located in the San Leandro
Bay area and has 19 bridges that connect it to the city of
Oakland.
The Situation:
A large scale, well planned, and well-funded terrorist attack has
been planned by a California based radical terrorist group
known as BC. The members of this terrorist group want to force
the government to divide California into three separate states.
They are violent, willing to die for their cause, and are home
grown, so they know the culture and can blend into a crowd.
Ten of the terrorists are employees at the coliseum. On this day,
they have driven vans to work that are full of weapons,
explosives, ammunition, and other supplies.
During the 3rd inning, the attack occurs. Nineteen small boats
are loaded with explosives. Each boat is manned with five
heavily armed terrorists. The radicals tie off their boats under
the 19 bridges. The extremists exit the boats, enter the parking
lot of the coliseum, and remotely detonate the explosives,
destroying 18 of the 19 bridges, but leave the North Bridge
partially intact. Just prior to the bridge detonations, four U-
Haul trucks with two occupants in the cabs and 10 heavily

armed terrorists in the back of each truck drive through the
North Bridge Gate, also entering the parking lot. Each U-Haul
truck also contains a large amount of extra supplies to keep the
terrorists’ operation going. The terrorist force is comprised of
153 well-armed members who are willing to die for their
ideology.
Once the coliseum has been cut off from the city of Oakland,
the terrorists use cars from the parking lot to block the
remaining portion of the North Bridge. Other cars in the parking
lot are set on fire so the heavy smoke will block the view of law
enforcement helicopters. All coliseum exits are blocked by
burning vehicles and by armed terrorists. Exits that cannot be
blocked are destroyed with explosives. Innocent bystanders in
the parking lot are shot and killed. Identifiable armed security
and Oakland Police Officers are attacked and also shot and
killed by the radicals who have high-powered rifles and
automatic weapons. It is believed that the inside of the coliseum
has been booby trapped with explosives.
The goal of the terrorists is to contain as many people as
possible inside the coliseum and to prevent escaping baseball
fans outside of the coliseum from swimming to safety by using
the surrounding waterways. Since there are several terrorists
outside of the coliseum, they are able to warn the extremists
inside the ballpark in plenty of time to stop fans from escaping.
The Tactical Situation:
Local law enforcement consisting of 50 police officers who
were assigned to the game along with 200 regular security
guards are injured or dead. Hundreds of game fans are dead in
the parking lot and in the coliseum with hundreds more injured.
Mutual aid has responded to the event. Police SWAT teams,
Sheriff’s SEB teams, and FBI SWAT teams are on standby
while they assess the situation. Over 500 law enforcement
members who can enter the coliseum are under fire. Other
members of law enforcement are on the opposite shore of the
coliseum to offer covering fire for victims that are trying to
escape by swimming to safety.

The exact number of terrorists is not known, but eye witnesses
who managed to escape in the initial attack and law enforcement
officers report approximately 150 terrorists involved in the
incident. The police also report having neutralized 10 of the
terrorists, so there are around 140 observed terrorists left.
Negotiations have been established, and the situation is now in
its second day. With little food or water for the tens of
thousands of victims still alive inside the coliseum and with a
constant summer heat of 110 degrees, the situation is dire.
Armored vehicles have been gathered from surrounding
agencies, and the California National Guard has been activated.
The armored vehicles have been parked in a 180 degree
perimeter around the coliseum to offer cover for law
enforcement and for victims able to escape across the water to
safety.
NOTE: No federal troops can be used because it would violate
the Posse Comitatus Act. However, a loophole allows for
victims to be taken to the Navy because they are off-shore.
During Hurricane Katrina, National Guard medivac teams were
able to take victims to the Navy because there were no boots on
the ground.
Instructions:
As you write your draft and final essay, be sure to answer each
of the 10 sets of questions listed below. You must indicate in
your paper which set of questions you are addressing. For
example, (1.) The 180 degree perimeter will be… Your paper
does not have to address the questions in any particular order.
You must follow APA guidelines.
Your Task:
You are in charge of all Fire Department assets; EMS; and
coordination with hospitals, clinics, and the USNS Comfort,
which is birthed just outside of San Leandro Bay. The Governor
of the State of California has declared this situation a State of
Emergency, so any resources you need will be available.
Landing Craft Air Cushions (LCAC) can hold up to four fire
trucks each. With all but one severely damaged bridge out, the

only way to get fire trucks and other heavy equipment into the
area is by amphibious landing on the west side of the coliseum.
There are large pumps staged on the west side to supply water
to the fire trucks.
Over the past two days and nights, a few hundred victims have
been able to escape by crossing the water; however, most are
severely injured.
1. With your 180 degree perimeter around the coliseum, where
will you have your EMS teams set up so they can aid those who
have escaped? How will you get them to a medical facility?
How will you decide which facility they are taken to?
Anticipating a large number of casualties, you have coordinated
with the local hospitals, clinics, and the United States Navy,
which deployed the USNS Comfort.
2. How will you decide which casualties go to what medical
facility?
During this horrific event, the media will be everywhere, but
will be unable to fly due to the heavy smoke. They will be able
to see your perimeter and assets being gathered.
3. How will you keep the media from giving the terrorists
critical intelligence by inadvertently recording where they
should not video? Can you use the media to your advantage in
this situation, or will the media just be a hindrance?
Due to the two days of extreme heat, exposure, and dehydration,
law enforcement has decided to enter the coliseum. It will be a
fight to secure the location. SWAT teams will need to fly in by
helicopter, while under fire and with low visibility, to bring the
coliseum and parking lot under control.
4. When SWAT enters the parking lot, it appears to be cleared
of terrorists who have likely moved into the coliseum. SWAT
teams need to enter the coliseum, but it will require fire fighters
to break open a large hole in one side of the coliseum. To avoid
the potential injury of patrons, explosives have been ruled out
as a means to gain entry. What fire department assets will you
deploy to break a hole into the coliseum? What equipment will
you need? What security assets will you require to ensure the

safety of the fire fighters breaching the coliseum walls?
While the breaching teams are working, other fire fighters must
extinguish burning cars in the parking lot that have been kept
ablaze by the extremists. The fires are hindering the views of
helicopters that are deploying additional SWAT teams.
5. With multiple cars burning all around the coliseum, what
assets are you going to deploy to extinguish these fires? Where
are you going to start, and what type of security are you going
to provide for each fire truck?
During the operation to secure the coliseum, the responding
SWAT teams have to pick a direction to move in. You must
decide in what direction they should move.
6. You have the option to send EMS in with the SWAT teams,
and you have at your disposal EMS from city, county, state, and
National Guard agencies. Are you going to send in EMS? If so,
with which wave will you send them? If not, why not, and how
are you going to use EMS?
During the operation to secure the coliseum, the crowds in the
areas not yet secured are coming under fire from the terrorists.
The crowd begins to resist the terrorists in order to aid the
incoming SWAT teams who ultimately kill or capture the
terrorists.
7. You receive reports that the coliseum appears to be secured,
and there is no active resistance. The fires are extinguished in
the parking lot, and the outer wall of the coliseum has been
breached. Because there are nearly 38,000 casualties with
injuries ranging from exposure, dehydration, and gunshot
wounds, what is your next move?
The casualties have been triaged, the National Guard has
deployed temporary bridges, and you have a fleet of helicopters,
hundreds of ambulances, and other emergency vehicles at your
disposal.
8. How are you going to coordinate with your resources to
evacuate the remaining 38,000 survivors still at the location?
Keeping in mind this is an active crime scene, there will be
many deceased in the parking lot and inside the coliseum.

9. Most of the fatalities will be game spectators, but there will
also be victims from fire departments, law enforcement
agencies, and the National Guard, so emotions will be high.
How will you coordinate the removal of the deceased, and with
whom? Will you leave them at the venue or remove them to a
staging area for identification and proper removal? For scenario
purposes, there are 2,531 victims who were declared dead at the
venue. There are an additional 253 deceased at local hospitals
and on the USNS Comfort.
The number of terrorists that have been killed or captured is
140. Due to conflicting accounts from baseball fans who were
able to escape from the coliseum, law enforcement may not
know there were actually 153 terrorists involved.
10. As the head of the fire departments, EMS, and hospital
coordination, you know there may be terrorists still on the loose
who have gained valuable intelligence on how the emergency
services will respond. What steps are you going to take to
prepare, plan, and train for the next possible attack?
The following are suggested resources to use in your scenario:
· Oakland City Emergency Services;
· Alameda County Emergency Services;
· California Highway Patrol;
· California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection;
· all hospitals and medical clinics;
· surrounding counties, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara,
Marin, Sonoma, Napa;
· USNS Comfort (T-AH-20);
· all parks, colleges, schools open parking lots, Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI);
· California National Guard; and
· four Landing Craft Air Cushions (LCAC) from Camp
Pendleton.
Resources
The following resource(s) may help you with this assignment.
· Citation Guide
· CSU Online Library Research Guide

· Submit Writing Center Request
Unit IV Outline Open
· Grading Rubric
Instructions
For this second phase of the essay project, you will create an
outline to demonstrate the structure of your final essay paper.
You will ultimately answer the 10 questions posed in the
assignment, but can do so in any order that makes sense to you.
Include a section for a thesis statement at the beginning with a
section for a summary or concluding thoughts at the end.
Your outline must be at least 475 words in length. All sources
used, including the textbook, must be referenced. Paraphrased
and/or quoted materials must have accompanying citations in
APA style.
Resources
· Citation Guide
Unit V Essay Open
· Grading Rubric
Instructions
For this third phase of your essay project, you will begin
writing. You must create a three- to five-page page rough draft
of your final essay paper. Using your peer-reviewed articles and
the instructions for the scenario, begin to fill in the outline you
created in Unit IV.
Your draft paper must be at least three- to five-pages pages in
length. All sources used, including the textbook, must be
referenced. Paraphrased and/or quoted materials must have
accompanying citations in APA style.
Note: Your final essay paper will be 10 pages in length. You
must incorporate any feedback provided by your professor. If

you do not write a full five-page draft, you will have to
integrate the remaining pages into the final essay paper. For
example, if your draft is three pages in length, you will need to
include an additional seven pages to complete the final essay.
Resources
· Citation Guide
Unit VII Final Essay Open
· Grading Rubric
Instructions
For this fourth phase of your essay project, you must add the
last three to five pages of new material to your final essay
paper. Using your peer-reviewed articles, professor feedback,
and the instructions for the scenario, finalize your paper and
submit it in Blackboard.
Your Final Essay must be 10 pages in length. All sources used,
including the textbook, must be referenced. Paraphrased and/or
quoted materials must have accompanying citations in APA
style.
Resources
· Citation Guide
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