Are you suggesting that everyone in the police department all the way down to the grunt level street security guys knew that a bomb was going to go off? How could such information be passed to so many people and still stay secret?
Are you suggesting that everyone in the police department all the way down to the grunt level street security guys knew that a bomb was going to go off? How could such information be passed to so many people and still stay secret?
smd wrote:
I don't know, let's compare it to the vast data pool we all have of what it typically looks like three seconds after an explosion at a marathon.
Positively brilliant!
not odd at all, they have been doing that for several years, since the Athens Olympics at least I think..
from a volunteer,
#50 ::: jnh : April 16, 2013, 12:46 PM:
http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/015012.html#1315228
ICS is up and active for the Marathon at a regional or state level out of the state EOC in Framingham in all the 10 or so years I've been involved. I believe that the Federal EOC is also activated for the event, and one of the federal logistics support teams is based in Mass, and can activate on very short notice (everyone in that team holds a Class A Commercial Drivers License (including the receptionist).
The Marathon is a pre-declared Mass Casualty Incident, and there were already special medical protocols in place just for the normal level of ill and injured runners. This may have helped. What certainly helped was the vast number of trained medical responders, vetted and credentialed for the event, that were just around the corner. The finish line medical tents are run by Boston EMS. Boston EMS has large numbers of bicycle Paramedics working the race. Ambulances are pre-spotted at many of the medical tents, especially in the last third or so of the race. Course medical is run from a central offsite location and is coordinated between MEMA (Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency), the Red Cross, the ambulance companies, race management, and other players. There is a Ham radio net with full net control providing communications from every medical tent and walking Red Cross team to coordinate response.
Special Boston or State police teams are already in place (there are a couple of black vans that drive just in front of the leaders of at least two of the waves of runners (women's elite and men's elite)) loaded with special ops folk with the rear van doors open, and at least the last row of seating facing backwards -- the same as in previous years.
The course is lined with Police and National Guard for crowd control and incident response.
Normally, the Marathon is considered to be a massive live drill with real world problems popping up. I wish it had stayed that way.
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"Conspiracy theorists" is one of the most innacurately used terms of our time, considering that it now denotes "whackos."
Theories about conspirators can be accurate, you know.
The events of 9/11/2001 are just that: a theory about conspirators.
Also, I'm thrilled for the majority of the population that accept and believe that the world is just how it is presented on television. Congratulations. Take time to read about Edward Bernays and then re-evaluate. You'll hate me at first, but then thank me later.
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