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SPECIAL REPORT Maximizing Life-Saving in Active Shootings, Part 1 their MCI protocol is Priority 1A. Changing the Response Firefighter-medics, followed by ambulances, are escorted from the Fire Staging Area by officers, permitting them to safely arrive en mass to the CCP. We must collectively enlarge the focus and change the response. Firefghterparamedics must be granted early entry and access to the wounded. Only law enforcement can facilitate the rapid entry of fre personnel into the structure and the collection of the wounded. This is a criminal mass-casualty event, and fre's Mass Casualty Incident protocols are proven in rapidly transferring the wounded to advanced life support facilities. Far from being diffcult to achieve, the results become a natural cooperative effort once both disciplines understand the advantages of this approach. The Hillsboro, Ore. Police and Fire Departments recognized that changes were needed and rewrote the model of public safety's response to the Criminal Mass Casualty Incident. The Hillsboro Police had already evolved beyond the multiple-offcers formation concept several years earlier in favor of rapid intervention by offcers entering from multiple ingress points. This initial collaboration resulted in both agencies merging their talents in support of the comprehensive mission. They sought to jointly answer the question of how to stop innocents from being shot while giving those already wounded a better chance at surviving. Hillsboro Active Shooter Model Within 15-20 minutes, there will be a large number of responding officers— far more than is needed in the interior. Officers assist in transferring the wounded from the CCP to awaiting ambulances. 36 LAW and ORDER I July 2013 The following list is an overview of the integrated Hillsboro Active Shooter Model. Offcers respond to dispatched reports of an Active Shooter. As they arrive, they each park on the same side of the street and purposely leave space for the ingress-egress of fre equipment and ambulances. The frst offcers arriving make either solo or two-offcer entries at their discretion. Multiple ingress points are employed, converging quickly on the suspect. If there are indicators of the suspect wounding people, the offcers rapidly move to interrupt the killing. If there are no indicators, the offcers rapidly begin to dominate key architectural features such as hallways, and stairwell exits and elevator banks in multi-story buildings. Fire units stage just around