NFPA Journal - July/August 2018 - 19

Dispatches Briefs

AP WIDE/WORLD

Report: Police
stopped medics
from entering
Parkland

As an armed teenager roamed the
halls of Marjory
Stoneman Douglas High School in
Parkland, Florida, in
February, gunning
down fellow students
in his path, paramedics who wanted to go
inside and administer aid were stopped
by police, according
to a report released
in May by the Coral
Springs-Parkland
Fire Department.
Deputy Fire Chief
Michael McNally
claims he asked
six times for permission to send
specialized teams
of police officers
and paramedics,
known as rescue task
forces (RTFs), into
the school, where
children lay bleeding
and dying. But the
police captain in
charge of the scene
kept saying no. "The
[Broward Sheriff's
Office] incident
commander advised
me, 'She would
have to check,'"
McNally wrote in
the report. "After
A
podcast
several
minutes,
looks
at a once
I requested
family's
loss
again the
need to
from
fire.
deploy
RTF elements
into the scene to ...
initiate treatment
as soon as possible.
Once again, the
incident commander
expressed that she
'would have to check
before approving
this request.'"
Thirty-four people
were shot in the
Parkland shooting.
Fifteen of them died
at the school, and
another two died
later.
NFPA 3000™ (PS),
Active Shooter/Hostile Event Response
(ASHER) Program,
was released May 1
and stresses, among
many other steps,
the need for a unified

command and integrated response
between police, fire,
EMS, and hospitals
during incidents
like the Parkland
shooting. This could
include sending RTFs
into a potentially
dangerous, or warm
area, to attend to
victims. "If we don't
get a rescue task
force in that warm
area very soon,
people are going to
die," Julie Downey,
a Florida fire chief
and NFPA 3000
technical committee
member, told NFPA
Journal in March.
"Four to six, maybe
seven minutes, if
we can't get in and
they're bleeding
and someone inside
hasn't already initiated care, they're
going to die while
we're outside."
Learn more about
NFPA 3000 and read
the NFPA Journal
May/June cover story
on the provisional
standard online at
nfpa.org/3000news.

Chemical plants
lack guidance
for severe
weather

The United States
Chemical Safety
Board has released
its final investigation
report on the Crosby,
Texas, Arkema chemical plant fire that
occurred after Hurricane Harvey dumped
more than 50 inches
of rain on parts of
the city last August.
The report found
that, in general,
hazardous chemical
plants in the U.S. lack
guidance in planning
for floods and other
severe weather.
"As we prepare for
this year's hurricane
season, it is critical
that industry better
understand the
safety hazards posed
by extreme weather
events," CSB Chairperson Vanessa Allen

Sutherland said.
"Considering that
extreme weather
events are likely to
increase in number
and severity, the
chemical industry
must be prepared
for worst case
scenarios at their
facilities. We cannot
stop the storms, but
working together,
we can mitigate the
damage and avoid a
future catastrophic
incident."
The French-owned
Arkema plant made
headlines after flooding at the facility

more at nfpa.org/
stormseason.

Polaris fined
record amount
for not reporting
fire risk

Polaris Industries,
a leader in the
manufacturing of
recreational outdoor
vehicles including
ATVs and snowmobiles, agreed in
April to pay a $27.25
million civil penalty
to the Consumer
Product Safety
Commission (CPSC)
for failing to imme-

one that resulted
in the death of a
15-year-old passenger, 11 reports of
burn injuries, and a
fire that consumed
10 acres of land,"
the statement said.
Polaris also failed to
immediately report a
defect with its 2014
and 2015 Ranger
models that caused
dozens of fires,
according to the
CPSC.
Fire safety defects
have been documented in earlier
Polaris vehicle
models as well. In

PREPAREDNESS PROBLEM
The Arkema chemical plant in Crosby, Texas, which
experienced flooding and a fire following Hurricane
Harvey. A Chemical Safety Board investigation of
the incident found that chemical plants in the U.S.
lack planning guidance for floods and other results
of severe weather.

knocked out main
and backup power
to refrigerated tanks
storing organic
peroxides. Without
cool temperatures
to keep them stable,
the chemicals broke
down and caught fire.
NFPA Journal
covered the Arkema
incident and other
petrochemical industry failures during
Harvey in an article
titled "In Harm's
Way" in its "Storm
Season" package
that appeared in the
November/December 2017 issue. Read

diately report that
two of the company's vehicle models
were at risk of fire. It
was reportedly the
highest civil penalty
payment ever made
to the CPSC.
According to a
statement from the
CPSC, Polaris knew
about a defect with
its 2013 to 2016 RZR
models but failed
to report it before
somebody was
killed. "By the time
Polaris did report the
defect or risk, it had
received reports of
150 fires, including

2014, an 11-year-old
Texas girl was riding
on the back of a
2010 Polaris Ranger
when it flipped,
pinning her underneath. The vehicle
leaked gas and then
caught fire, and the
girl sustained severe
burns, according
to a lawsuit filed in
2016. The lawsuit
said the vehicle
lacked "an inexpensive device to stop
gas from leaking out
of the vent line." The
girl had to have her
lower right leg and
left foot amputated.

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