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British Response: Report Details Response to Terrorist Attack By David McGlinchey The 38-page report warns it is “likely that a terrorist attack would involve a specific target such as a VIP, critical or iconic location, or high profile event.” The report breaks down the area around an attack into “Hot” “Warm” and “Cold” zones. The zones would progress from hot to cold in the opposite direction of the prevailing wind. Police, firefighters and military personnel would evacuate casualties from the “Hot Zone,” or the area closest to the actual attack, according to the report. The investigation and evidence gathering would take place in hot and warm zones. A “Warm Zone” represents an area with some contamination. A “Cold Zone” would be beyond these two areas. The plan calls for workers to decontaminate survivors at a location between warm and cold zones. Authorities would also establish a command center, an ambulance loading area and a rest center for survivors in the cold zone, according to the report. “During the immediate response, unless they are presenting a hazard to the living, the dead should where practicable be left,” the report says. Emergency workers might have to deal with secondary attacks and “confused, violent or rowdy victims,” the report said, warning first responders of the need to keep order in the confusing aftermath of an attack. “In the case of mass decontamination, and if there is impatience to enter the decontamination facility, respondents should expect public disorder. For these reasons, the decontamination process must be adequately controlled from the outset,” the report says.
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