Chemical Attack

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The Chemicals of the Super Bowl
Cory Barnett
HSM 320: Emergency Response to Terrorism
Instructor Kelly George
September 2, 2013

The Chemicals of the Super Bowl The Super Bowl, a prime place where thousands of people come to celebrate, party and get together with others for an exceptional good time. All it would take is for one terrorist attack to change all that in the matter of minutes. The amount of mass confusion and mass injuries that could happen would be completely on the terrorist’s side but just how easy would this be to complete? However, there is a plan in place for incidents like this and many more and I will be taking a look at one in particular, a chemical attack at the Super Bowl. The scenario is Hydrogen …show more content…

Attorney’s office (USAO), U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), U.S. Department of State (USDS), U.S. Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) ,U.S. North American Air Defense Command (NORAD), U.S. Northern Command (NORCOM), U.S. Office of Inspector General (OIG), U.S. Postal Inspectors (USPS), U.S. Secret Service (USSS), U.S. Southeast Air Defense, U.S. Southern Command (SOCOM), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The state agencies would include the department of law enforcement, highway patrol and national guard for the appropriate state. Local agencies would be similar to the state agencies involved. It would include the county and city police departments, fire and rescue and emergency management departments. (Leverock, 2010) The role and responsibility of each agency would all be different in some way, shape or form. Federal agencies would be the supervisory authorities of the incident or the incident command. The state and local authorities would be the personnel that would be performing the perimeter security, rescue and triage of fans and players and attempting to keep everyone calm, cool and collective in order to successfully decontaminate the mass amounts of people,

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