Crisis Response Journal

INCIDENT REPORTS: Bomb blasts in Mumbai; Israel and Lebanon

FEATURES: Integrated public safety; Considering children; Tracking data for EMS; Moscow’s Metro safety; Media handling; Response to new threats

NBC/HAZMAT: NBC in Tokyo; CBRN response in Britain; HazMat command;

TOURISM and RISK: Contingency planning

IN DEPTH: Canine operations; Crisis response and climate change; Civil-military relations in times of war; Confronting the ‘perfect storm’; Psychosocial crisis intervention; Beyond Katrina: improving response; Telemetry – part III

DISCUSSION: The emergency that never happened

PARTNERS PAGES: Command solutions; One stop shop for USAR PPE

LESSONS LEARNED: Public information in emergencies

AUTHORS: S K Dogra; Adi Moncaz; Frank G Straub, PhD; Rosanna Briggs; Hilary Phillips; Lina Kolesnikova; Kathryn Ryan; Ken Brigden; Terushige Fukunaga; Steve Doel; Mike Hall; Jeremy Collymore; Chris Pritchard; Dave Robinson; Raj Rana; David Lane; Major Erik de Soir; Arnold M Howitt and Herman B ‘Dutch’ Leonard; Graham Croom; Michael Kocher; Katherine J Worboys, PhD

INCIDENT REPORTS Australia’s tropical tempest; Kenya building collapse; Forest fires – facing up 2006; Groundbreaking USAR exercise

ASSOCIATION NEWS International network; Assessing lessons learned

FEATURES Predicting the future?; Crime, DVI and policing; Improving Europe’s disaster response; Earthquakes and fire

SPORTING EVENTS Exercising for World Cup scenarios; Turin Winter Olympics; Safety at the Commonwealth Games

CIVIL / MILITARY CO-OPERATION Working together – a civil partnership; An evolving role for NATO?; Armed forces in India

IN DEPTH Multi-agency / multi-national response; Crisis response and climate change; Beyond Katrina: improving response; Telemetry – part II; Crisis response and privacy

DISCUSSION The borderline of chaos; Urgent issues faced in South Africa

EVENTS: Shaping response to future disasters; Forthcoming events and calendar

PARTNERS PAGES Lion’s new protection kit; Clearer focus for better results; Exercise joint response

AUTHORS: Kathryn Ryan; John Holland; Sonia Rufino; Anya Hastwell; Arthur Rabjohn; Jan Weges; Mike Rothery; Charles Kim; Guido Bertolaso; Adi Moncaz; Albrecht Broemme; Loris Munaro; Lindsay Hansch; Friedrich Brohs; James Pardew and Chris Bennett; Gopaliji Malviya; Raj Rana; Dave Robinson; Arnold M Howitt and Herman B ‘Dutch’ Leonard; Graham Croome; Steven Comerford and Irina Jeliazkova

INCIDENT REPORTS Europe’s building collapses; Buncefield oil terminal blaze; Mystery incident at Melbourne Airport

SIEGES and HOSTAGE TAKINGS School siege tactics; Learning from mass hostage events; Bus hijacking in Athens

FEATURES Disaster victim identification; Tsunami victim identification; Kuwait’s new HazMat team; Disaster co-ordination in France; Disaster handling – telling the public; Extreme weather – South Africa

IN DEPTH Telemetry past, present and future; International assistance; International crisis response; Resilient infrastructure; Firefighting tactics

EVENTS: IJOCC 2006 – Risk, response and reality; Common concerns on emergency response

DISCUSSION In the future tense; Visions for the future

PARTNERS PAGES Outsourcing – reducing the risks; Emergency management exercises

AUTHORS: Anya Hastwell; Simon Parr; Emily Hough; Robert E Bartholomew; Lina Kolesnikova; Eleftherios Ikonomou; Hilary Phillips; Jasem Al-Mansouri; François Maurer; Agnès Voisard and Ulrich Meissen; Graham Croome; Nicholas Hefner; Steven J Comerford and Irina D Jeliazkova; John McDonough; Dennis Davis; Albrecht Broemme

CIVIL DISTURBANCE An unconventional crisis; Violence in Perpignan; Community engagement

INCIDENT REPORTS Air tragedy in Greece 9; Quake lays waste to South Asia

HURRICANES KATRINA and RITA Hurricane Katrina, an overview; Military involvement; Coast Guard and environment; Eye on a hurricane

FEATURES Flood rescue craft; Children and terrorism; Ethics for media commentators; The future of UK civil security; Australia counter terrorism; Citizens at the core of civil defence; Alerting a community

IN DEPTH International assistance part I; Resilient infrastructure part II; Techniques and tactics – part II;

EVENTS Demands for the future; Conferences and calendar; Fire Academy meeting

PARTNERS PAGES Protective clothing paradox

AUTHORS: Patrick Lagadec; Francis Mateu; Peter Craig; Ioannis Kapakis and Ioannis Stamoulis; John Holland; Anya Hastwell; Kirk Rosenhan; Cliff Shorter and Seb Freeman; Seiran Baghdasaryan and Yelena Badalyan; Mike Granatt; Bruce Mann; Ed Tyrie; Gilles Barsacq; Leo J Saidnaway; Nicholas Hefner; Paul Grimwood; Dave Frodsham; Arthur Rabjohn