Major incident

What happens after a major incident can shape how ambulance staff carry that experience for years to come. Lanna Deamer speaks to Sasha Johnston about a new toolkit, now adopted through AACE, that aims to make support more consistent and embedded in practice.

London Fire Brigade liaison officers delivered specialist training in Tunisia to boost joint emergency and counter-terror response capabilities, strengthening international cooperation with Tunisian Civil Protection teams.

A new national resource has been launched to support ambulance staff after major, complex or distressing incidents.

The first phase of the Southport Inquiry has begun, following the conviction of the perpetrator of the 2024 attack that left three young girls dead. The statutory inquiry, chaired by Sir Adrian Fulford, will investigate how services responded before and after the incident and what lessons must be learned to prevent future tragedies.

Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service has published the full fire investigation report into the car park fire at Luton Airport that destroyed over 1300 vehicles, involved over 100 firefighters at its height and is now calling for sprinklers to be mandatory in multi-storey car parks.

National NILO coordinator Patrick Goulbourne opens up about the world of the National Inter-agency Liaison Officers and shares why someone would want to go through the tough recruitment process to put themselves at the front of major incident response. He says they require swift decision making skills but need improved secure mobile communications technology to be what he calls, ‘the selfless part’ of the emergency services.

Two commemorative events will take place on Saturday 5 October 2024 to remember those who died and those who were injured in the 1999 Ladbroke Grove Train Crash.

Merseyside Chief Fire Officer Phil Garrigan talks about the recent knife attack in Southport and the ensuing riots, saying that the learning from the Manchester Arena bombing and other major incidents meant that the service was better prepared for a joined-up, assertive and effective response.

Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service has invested in new equipment to improve the way it triages and cares for injured people at major incidents.

A fire that broke out in a multi-storey car park at Luton airport in October 2023 started accidentally, an investigation into the incident has found.