Page 40 - Incident Command News Today

WATCH: Firefighters have been continuing to battle a fire at a former amusement building in Ventnor.

We popped down to the site of the ferocious fire that took place last night at the site of the former amusement arcade on Ventnor's seafront

Should be outside. in this particular stage of an active shooter situation within the first five, 15 minutes, your job is to just go in there and neutralize the subject. doesnt matter if youre the chief, if youre an officer with one year on, whether you have a radio or not, as long as you have a gun, your job is to go in there and neutralize the suspect. then you can set up your incident command and decide what youre going to do as far as your resources. but, you know, if theyre inside the build...

Seeing during this incident? its just -- its just inexcusable for that type of failure as the incident commander. >> you know, when you hear this -- and im wondering from your perspective as well on this and how this goes. when you think about it, its one thing about the equipment that one has. but the key to me is the decision-making process here and the choices that were made. and when you hear about the fact that there is a -- and i -- i cant even believe im saying this -- a 17-minute 911 cal...

Decision-making process here and the choices that were made. and when you hear about the fact that there is a -- and i -- i cant even believe im saying this -- a 17-minute 911 call from a 10-year-old girl telling and describing whats happening -- i see you shaking your head right now. what goes through your mind when you hear that? is this -- i mean, is delayed reaction or this is -- it appears to be -- i dont know if its incompetence, unconscionable, a little bit of both? whats your reaction? >...

It requires you establish incident command on-site with the commander who has access to all of the information and able to make the quick decisions. we dont know where that was. we know chief arredondo was the commander. it doesnt explain why there was a negotiator trying to call the shooter from the funeral parlor ac across the street. that makes no sense whatsoever. we also dont know how they know what his phone number was or who he was at that point early in the attack. it just raises many mo...

Incident command and decide what youre going to do as far as your resources. but, you know, if theyre inside the building and hes acting as an incident commander, thats the wrong thing to do. his job is not to sit there and tell people what to do and try to coordinate things. his only job -- his first mission one is to get into that classroom and neutralize that suspect, especially if they heard gunfire. that right there would tell me this is not any type of a barricaded suspect. you know, this ...

It stuns me. the incident command statute was to do a multiagency response to a critical incident all pretty indicated on communication. you cant communicate without a radio. yell orders and commands around him? this is basic. this is policing 101, public safety 101 that incident command is predicated on communication. another failure but explains a lot. were seeing a lot of scene confusion. people didnt know what they were doing both as agencies were responding inside and then after the shooter...

Basicises put out by the department of homeland security. as a default rule, whoever is in charge of that jurisdiction, in this case the school property and thats how the school police officer, the chief arredondo is in charge of incident command from the beginning. but that command can very easily be shifted to a larger more capable, more sophisticated, more experienced law enforcement unit, like in this situation. the first question i have is why uvalde police didnt take command of that scene?...

Why was the school police chief, who oversaw, by far, the smallest law-enforcement agency that responded, in charge of the situation response in the first place?