C3 Podcast: Active Shooter Incident Management

Episode 18 #10 Overall, what are the gaps in our preparedness?10 Questions for the Mayor to ask the Police and Fire Chief SeriesQuestion 10: "Overall, what are the gaps in our preparedness?"Bill Godfrey:Thank you for joining us and welcome back to the final instance of our podcast series that we've been doing, on 10 questions for the mayor or the city manager, county manager to ask their police and fire chiefs. Today we are going to be looking at kind of an overall summary, what are the gaps and our preparedness, what are the common problems we see? My name is Bill Godfrey, I'm one of the instructors with C3 Pathways, retired fire chief. Joining me today is Tom Billington, also a retired fire chief and one of the C3 instructors, Stephen Shaw, a Sergeant with Chapel Hill, North Carolina and one of our C3 instructors, Ron Otterbacher, retired division chief with the Orange County Sheriff's office and an instructor and Don Tuten with the Jacksonville Sheriff's office where he's the chief over Homeland Security a

Episode 17 #9 What is your comfort with schools' Violent Event and reunification plans?10 Questions for the Mayor to ask the Police and Fire Chief SeriesQuestion 9: "What is your comfort with our public and private schools' Violent Event procedures and offsite reunification plans?"Bill Godfrey:Welcome to our next podcast. We are continuing our series, 10 things for the mayor or the city manager, county manager to ask their police and fire chief together. Today, we're going to talk number nine, what is your comfort with our public and private schools, violent event procedures, and offsite reunification plans. My name is Bill Godfrey. I'm one of the instructors with C3 Pathways and a retired fire chief. And, I'm joined today by Don Tuten, chief with Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. Don's in charge of Homeland Security. Steve Shaw from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a Sergeant with the police department there, also one of the instructors at C3, as is Don, and Ron Otterbacher, retired division chief from the Orange C

Episode 16 #8 What are you doing with community partners?10 Questions for the Mayor to ask the Police and Fire Chief SeriesQuestion 8: "What are you doing with community partners regarding Active Shooter Hostile events?"Bill Godfrey:Welcome back to our next podcast. We are continuing our series on 10 questions for the mayor, the city manager, the County manager to ask their police and fire chief together. Today we are covering topic number eight what are you doing with community partners regarding active shooter hostile events? Today I'm joined by Tom Billington, retired fire chief, Stephen Shaw, Sergeant with Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Ron Otterbacher, retired division chief of the Orange County Sheriff's office and Don Tuten, Chief over Homeland Security at Jacksonville Sheriff's office. Welcome guys. Thanks for joining me. My name is Bill Godfrey. I'm one of the instructors at C3 pathways along with the gentleman I just introduced, also a retired fire chief. So Ron, let me start with you because you've g

Bill Godfrey:Hello, and welcome back to our continuing podcast series on ten questions that the mayor should ask the police chief or the fire chief together, or any elected official, city manager, county manager. My name is Bill Godfrey, I'm one of the instructors with C3 Pathways, a retired fire chief. With me today, I've got Don Tuten, he's chief with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s office, over see's homeland security. Don, thanks for joining us today.We also have Ron Otterbacher. Ron is a retired division chief with the Orange County Sheriff’s office. Ron, thanks for taking the time to join us. Good to have you here.And last but not least, we have Joe Ferrara, retired fire chief, paramedic from south Florida, from Martin County. Joe, thanks for being here today.So guys, our question today, we're on number seven, which is how will public information and social media be managed real time during the response? You know Don, I think I'd like to start with you. Is this really a problem?Don Tuten:It is, and this is s

Episode 14 #6 What joint exercises have you done and what is planned? - "10 Questions from the Mayor" Series10 Questions for the Mayor to ask the Police and Fire Chief SeriesQuestion 6: "What joint exercises have you done and what is planned?"Bill Godfrey:Welcome back to the next in our podcast series. We are in the middle of our mini-series, talking about 10 questions that the mayor or city manager, County administrator want to ask their police and fire chiefs together to kind of help them understand what their preparedness level is for responding to an active shooter event.Today we are going to talk about question number six, chiefs, what joint exercises have you done and what are planned for the future? My name is Bill Godfrey. One of the instructors with C3, a retired fire chief. I have with me today, Pete Kelting, Lieutenant with Seminole County Sheriff's office, also one of the C3 instructors. And we have Tom Billington, retired fire chief and one of the C3 instructors. Tom, you want to lead us off?Tom

Episode 13 #5 What joint training have you done and what is planned? - "10 Questions from the Mayor" Series10 Questions for the Mayor to ask the Police and Fire Chief SeriesQuestion 5: "What joint training have you done and what is planned?"Bill Godfrey:Welcome back to our podcast series. This is the next installment. We are currently on a mini-series here, talking about 10 questions that the Mayor or City Manager should be asking their police chief and fire chief together. Today, we are going to be talking about question number 5.Chiefs, tell me what joint training you've done and what is planned? My name is Bill Godfrey, one of the instructors with C3 and retired fire chief. Have with me today, Adam Pendley, assistant chief with Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. Also, one of the instructors with C3. Welcome, Adam.Adam Pendley:Thank you.Bill Godfrey:And we have with us, Joe Ferrara, also retired fire chief, like myself. And one of the instructors with C3. Thanks, Joe, for coming in.Joe Ferrara:Thank you.Bill Go

Episode 12: #4 How does each agency use ICS jointly and individually on a routine basis? - "Questions from the Mayor" Series10 Questions for the Mayor to ask the Police and Fire Chief SeriesQuestion 4: "How does each discipline (i.e. law enforcement, fire, EMS) use ICS individually and jointly on a routine basis (i.e. regular calls)?"Bill Godfrey:Welcome back to our next podcast. In this series, we're in the middle of talking about the 10 questions that the mayor or city manager should ask their police chief and fire chief together. Today we're going to take number four, which was how does each discipline use ICS individually and jointly on a routine basis? So the mayor, the city manager, county administrator, can sit down with the police chief and fire chief and say, "You know, folks, tell me, how are you guys using ICS on a daily basis? Where are you using it together? How does it fit? How does that work?"My name is Bill Godfrey, one of the instructors with C3, retired fire chief. I have with me Billy Perry

Episode 11: #3 How does our Policy Fit with Mutual Aid? - "10 Questions from the Mayor" Series10 Questions for the Mayor to ask the Police and Fire Chief SeriesQuestion 3: "How does our joint response policy fit with our mutual aid partners’ response policies?" Bill Godfrey: Welcome to our next podcast installment. We are in the middle of our mini series about the tem questions a mayor, city manager, county administrator, can ask their police and fire chiefs together to try to help them understand where they are at a preparedness level for an active shooter event or a hostile event.Today with me, I have Joe Ferrara, retired Fire Chief and Pete Kelting, Lieutenant with the Sheriff's Office. Thanks guys, for coming in today to talk about this next question. My name is Bill Godfrey, also a retired Fire Chief and we're up to our third question. How does our, meaning our agencies, how does our agency's joint response policy fit with our mutual aid partner's response policies? Guys, where do you want to pick this o

Episode 10: #2 What is our Joint ICS structure? - "10 Questions from the Mayor" Series10 Questions for the Mayor to ask the Police and Fire Chief SeriesQuestion 2: "What is the integrated Incident Command System (ICS) structure (i.e. org chart) that you’ve developed as part of the joint response policy?" Bill Godfrey: Welcome to our next installment in our podcast series. We are doing a mini-series here for mayors, city managers, county administrators called Ten Questions to Ask Your Police and Fire Chief. Our first podcast, we covered the question of, can you show and review with me our joint a hostile event response policy? So today's question on this one, what is the integrated incident command system structure, in other words, the Org Chart, that you chiefs of police, fire, EMS, that you chiefs have developed as part of the joint response policy?My name is Bill Godfrey, one of the instructors with C3 Pathways, retired fire chief. I have with me today Adam Pendley, assistant chief with the Jacksonville She

Show Transcript:Episode 09: #1 Show me our joint Active Shooter Response policy - "10 Questions from the Mayor" Series10 Questions for the Mayor to ask the Police and Fire Chief SeriesQuestion 1:"Chiefs, please show and review with me our joint Active Shooter/Hostile Event Response policy."*Bill Godfrey: *Welcome to our next installment in our podcast series. This time we're going to be doing something a little different. We're actually going to be kicking off the beginning of a mini series where we're going to talk specifically about the topic of what kinds of questions the Mayor, the City Manager, or the County Administrator should be able to ask their police and fire Chief together, and really be able to judge what their readiness level is to be prepared for an active shooter event or to judge where they may have some gaps. We're going to take each one of these questions, 10 questions here, as a separate topic. Our first question in this series is," Chiefs, can you show and review with me our joint active

Episode 08: Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) Discussion of IEDs - Improvised Explosive Devices (aka bombs) in Active Shooter Events. <strong>Bill Godfrey: </strong> Welcome to this next discussion in ongoing podcast series talking about active shooter incident management. Today, we are going to be talking about the impact of improvised explosive devices in the presence of active shooter events. <br /> I have with us today to join the conversation Billy Perry, retired detective and bomb technician from the Jacksonville area. Welcome, thanks for coming in Billy.<br /> <strong> Billy Perry: </strong> Thank you for having me. <br /> <strong>Bill Godfrey: </strong> And Tom Billington, retired fire chief from the south Florida area. Tom, thanks for coming in.<br /><strong>Tom Billington:</strong> Thanks for having me.<br /><strong>Bill Godfrey: </strong> I am Bill Godfrey, also one of the other instruct

Episode 07: Tactical Training for Leaders Discussion of leadership engagement, tactical training for leaders, and leadership modeling. <strong>Bill Godfrey: </strong> Hello, and welcome to our next installment of our podcast series on active shooter incident management training. My name is Bill Godfrey, a retired fire chief, and one of the instructors for C3 Pathways. I'm your host today, and with me is Michelle Cook, also one of our instructors but recently retired from the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office after 26 years. Michelle retired as the director of patrol and enforcement, which in layman's terms, Michelle, basically you were the ops chief - Michelle Cook: I was chief, yes. Bill Godfrey: About 1,200 uniformed officers. Michelle Cook: Yes, sir, 1,200. Bill Godfrey: And now she is enjoying life. For the last year, she is the police chief of Atlantic Beach Police Department, a small, beach-side community, beautiful little area, with ...? Michelle Cook: 30 officers. B

Episode 06: What Makes Managing an Active Shooter Event Different? Discussion of what makes managing Active Shooter Events different from other types of incidents Bill Godfrey: Hello, and welcome to the discussion this afternoon. Today we are going to talk about what makes managing active shooter events different from all of the other types of incidents that responders go to. Today, we have with us Adam Pendley, assistant chief with Jacksonville sheriff's office, Travis Cox, lieutenant with Jacksonville sheriff's office, Tom Billington, retired fire chief, and I'm Bill Godfrey, also retired fire chief. Our topic today, Adam, what do you think sticks out in your mind, makes things different? Adam Pendley: Well, I think it's a great number of resources that respond very quickly in an active shooter event. While that makes it different than a lot of other types of incidents that you would use, let's say, the Incident Command System to manage, an active shooter event is also the same in the sense tha

Episode 04: Command Post Integration Discussion of Command Post integration in Active Shooter Incident Management (ASIM) Bill Godfrey: Hello, and welcome to our next installment of talking about active shooter events. My name is Bill Godfrey from C3 Pathways. And today's segment we are going to talk about integration in the Command Post. How do you bring law enforcement, fire EMS together and how do you make that work. And then, some of the common problems that we see. I mean, in a perfect world, we want one Command Post. We want all the disciplines together in that one Command Post. Actually, communicating with each other face-to-face. Sharing information, updating each other as the incident goes. And then also, coordinating with the troops downrange. But, that doesn't always turn out to be such an easy thing to accomplish and we're going to talk about that. With me today, we've got Tom Billington, Fire Chief. Stephen Shaw, Sergeant. Ron Otterbacher, Division Chief. Retired Sheriff, Kevin Beary.

Episode 03: Triage and Transport Discussion of the Triage and Transport Group Supervisor positions in Active Shooter Incident Management (ASIM) Bill Godfrey: Hello again, everybody. Bill Godfrey from C3 Pathways, here with a number of the instructors to talk about triage and transport and the challenges of integrating our medical roles in an active shooter event. Today I've got with me retired fire chief Tom Billington, both fire chief and paramedic. Another retired fire chief, Mark Rhame, also a paramedic. And not to be outdone, a third retired fire chief, Joe Ferrara, also a paramedic. Guys, thanks for taking the time to sit down and talk about this today. So just to kind of set the stage for us, when we talk about, in typical EMS, when you talk about mass casualty incidents, we always hear them throw out triage, treatment, and transport. It's kind of the three classic things that we talk about. But in an active shooter event, it's a little different. The triage officer, normally is ... The bus

Episode 05: Casualty Collection Point and Ambulance Exchange Point Discussion of Casualty Collection Points (CCP) and Ambulance Exchange Point (AEP) in Active Shooter Incident Management (ASIM) Bill Godfrey: Hello, and welcome to this next installment of talking about some of the challenges that we see on active shooter incidents. Today we are going to talk about Casualty Collection Points. My name is Bill Godfrey, a retired Fire Chief and one of the instructors at C3 Pathways. I have with me part of the Instructor cadre team, Adam Pendley, Assistant Chief with Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. We've got Travis Cox, Lieutenant from Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, Kevin Burd, Lieutenant with the Huntington County Prosecutor's office. All three of them are law enforcement, obviously. Then also with me we've got Robert Lee, retired Battalion Chief, Paramedic and Tom Billington, also a retired Fire Chief and a Paramedic. Welcome guys, thanks for taking the time this afternoon to talk about this. So the subje

Episode 02: The 5th Man (Tactical) Discussion of the 5th Man (also known as the Tactical Group Supervisor) in Active Shooter Incident Management (ASIM) Bill Godfrey: Hello, Bill Godfrey here from C3 Pathways, we're here today to talk a little bit about fifth man and the tactical position, a key position, in the management of an active shooter event, certainly on the law enforcement side, but really, for the entire event. And I have with me today, to talk about it, Steve Shaw, sergeant with Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Ron Otterbacher, who's retired division chief from the Orange county sheriff's office. And retired sheriff Kevin Beary, also from the Orange county sheriff's office. Guys, thanks for taking the time to come and talk with us today, Ron, what do you think. You've been around the block teaching this block for a long time, why is that fifth man and tactical position such a key element of managing these things? Ron Otterbacher: We actually got the fifth man concept from a lieutenant colonel

Episode 01: Common Misconceptions Discussion of common misconceptions in Active Shooter Incident Management (ASIM) Bill Godfrey: Welcome to our discussion of active shooter incident management. Today, we've got with us Stephen Shaw, sergeant from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Adam Pendley, assistant chief with Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. Mark Rhame, retired fire chief from Deltona, Florida and Orange County, Florida. And Joe Ferrara, also retired fire chief from Martin County, Florida. My name is Bill Godfrey, also retired fire chief and your host this afternoon. And our question today is what do you think is the biggest misconception that people have about active shooter incident management? Adam, why don't we start with you? What's on your mind about the big misconceptions that you seen on the law enforcement side or the dispatch side? Adam Pendley: I think one of the misconceptions is this idea that it's entirely the first responder, the police officer, fire, EMS and that is definitely an i