Crisis Response Journal

INCIDENT REPORTS: Terrorist attempts in the UK; Floods strike Australia; UK floods: Resilience issues; Summer flooding; Gold Command during UK floods

ON EXERCISE: International co-operation; Pandemic exercise; Testing command and control in Israel

FEATURES: Developing safety in Oman; Tactical threats to schools; School safety in Afghanistan; Protecting the City of London; Counter-terrorism security; Chlorine emergencies

RISK LANDSCAPE: What lies on the horizon…; Over the edge of the world; The day after: Reconstruction priorities

IN DEPTH: Wildland fires; Safety at major events; Emergency management foundations; Crisis management: Communication; Psychosocial crisis intervention; Looking back: Lockerbie 19 years on; Reviews, diary and announcements Flood Fighters 2007

REGULAR SECTIONS: Gore-Tex: Protection and comfort; VectorCommand: CBRN Training; The EU’s MIC in action; Lessons Learned

AUTHORS: Gillies Crichton and Izzy Kington; Philip Campbell; Emily Hough; Paul Hayden; Nina Dawes; Anja Baier; Matthew Drinkwater; Adi Moncaz; Lt Colonel Azhar Al-Kindi; Walter Chi; Suman Nag; Brett Lovegrove; Guy Collyer; Frank Reiner; Dennis Davis; Patrick Lagadec; Michel Nesterenko; Dr Johann G Goldammer; Fire Chief Klaus Maurer’s; Alejandro Lopez Carresi; Robert Jensen; Major Erik de Soir; Jay Levinson

INCIDENT REPORTS: Tsunami strikes the Solomon Islands; Tsunami strikes the Solomon Islands; Public safety at the Cricket World Cup

PROFILES: Palestinian police development; Sea rescue in South Africa; Driving safety forward

AVIATION: Helping survivors and the bereaved; Disaster response at Memphis Airport

FEATURES: On exercise; The TETRA three-country project; Emergency management in Iran; Fact finding in Cyprus; EMAP: The future of accreditation?

GLOBAL RESPONSE: EU responding to disasters; Working together; NATO in civil emergencies; US response at home and abroad; Impossible choices

IN DEPTH: Emergency management foundations; Command at large scale emergencies; Making sense of IT; Psychosocial crisis intervention

DISCUSSION: Standards in crisis response; Planning for business

EVENTS: Po-210: lessons learned, How prepared is London today?; IJOCC 2007 preview; Join the debate in London; Events calendar

REGULAR SECTIONS: Multi-threat solution from Lion; The EC’s cross-border projects; Crisis Classified; Lessons learned

AUTHORS: Izzy Kington and Jonathon Hall; Bharti Arora; Brigadier General Earl Arthurs; Colin Smith, QPM; Hilary Phillips; Keith Blight; Lina Kolnesikova; James Fielding Smith, Sandra S Waggoner and Gwendolyn Hall; Tom Kinderman; Hans Borgonjen; Arthur Rabjohn; Nicolas Hefner; Arthur Rabjohn; Peter Carl; John Holmes; Maurits Jochems; Bill Peterson and Dewey Perks; Jean Michel Piedagnel; Emily Hough; Richard Barnes; Simon Langdon; Mascia Toussaint; J L Smither

INCIDENT REPORTS: Underground train crash in Rome; Polonium-210 incident; Fireworks blast in East Sussex

EVACUATION: To run or to hide?; Car-less evacuation

FEATURES: Addressing the fireworks issue; Victim support; Managing threats to aviation; Civil contingencies; Preparing for a pandemic; Implementing Rapid Reflection Forces; Book review; The EU – sharing information; The future of fire in Europe

IN DEPTH: Foundations of emergency management: The machine that goes ‘ping’; Command at large scale emergencies; Making sense of IT; Management of flood emergencies; Canine operations; Psychosocial crisis intervention

DISCUSSION: Safety of temporary structures; Are disasters rapid onset events?

EVENTS: European event, IDER and calendar

PARTNER PAGES: New standard in PPE decontamination; Command solutions; Crisis classified

LESSONS LEARNED: Mapping information

AUTHORS: Alessandro Paola; Liz Morgan-Lewis; Nick Wilkinson; John Tesh; Todd Litman; Dr Ben M G Janssen; Lina Kolesnikova; Andy Blackwell; Andy Marshall; Kevin Probert-Ehaver; Pierre Béroux, Xavier Guilhou and Patrick Lagadec; Commissioner Frank Straub; Fiorella Perotto; Dennis Davis; Alejandro Lopez Carresi; Peter Power; Jonas Landgren and Urban Nulden; David Lane; Chris Pritchard and Keith Hampton; Major Erik De Soir; René Hagen; Adrian Meja; Nicole Gomez

INCIDENT REPORTS: Suicide attacks in Sri Lanka; Hungary shooting range blaze; HazMat incident in Sweden
INTERVIEW: After the storm

NBC RESPONSE: Nuclear first response; Media handling of Chernobyl

AVIATION: Russian aviation under strain; Aviation resilience; Airports and pandemics

FEATURES: Tracking the plume; Training for deaf people; New standards for USAR; New standards for USAR

MEDICAL & EMS: Serving remote communities; Mass repatriation from Lebanon; Stress in the emergency

IN DEPTH: Psychosocial crisis intervention; Management of flood emergencies; Management of flood emergencies; Canine operations

DISCUSSION: Complexity and chaos; Do we need an international agency?

EVENTS: IDER 2006, CTIF, EFA and calendar

PARTNER PAGES: CBRN protection; Pride in partnership; Emergency shoring; Training: A building block approach; Crisis classified

LESSONS LEARNED: Exercise planning

AUTHORS: Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe; Oszkár Cziva; Eva-Marie Abrahamsson; Emily Hough; Elena Buglova and Warren Stern; Volodymyr Beznoshchenko; Lina Kolesnikova; Keith Weston; David Gamper; Leo Saidnawey; Arjun Katoch; Mostafa Mohaghegh; Ben Creagh; Dr Uwe Schweigkofler; Major Erik de Soir; Fire Chief Paul Hayden; Peter Power; Chris Pritchard and Keith Hampton; Michel Nesterenko and Patrick Lagadec; Ed Lycett-Marquez and Thomas Kinderman; Katherine J Worboys, PhD and JL Smither