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Civil disturbance

Any incident that disrupts a community where intervention is required to maintain

public safety constitutes a civil disturbance. Some examples are demonstrations,

riots, strikes, public nuisances, and criminal activities. Civil disturbance incidencesmay include resistance or rejection of all different types of control and authority.

They tend to occur in areas of concentrated populations including sporting, concert,

cultural and conference events. Some areas subject to civil disturbances may

include college communities, areas with concentrations of disparate economic

status populations and government offices. Some examples of criminal activities

associated with civil disturbances may include looting, assault, property or

environmental damage, illegal drug use or distribution, fire-setting, vandalism and

violation of noise ordinances.

terrorismDevastating acts such as the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and

the Pentagon have left many concerned about the possibility of future

incidents in the United States and their potential impact. These attacks haveraised uncertainty about what might happen next. Terrorism may involve

devastating acts using weapons of mass destruction ranging from chemicalagents, biological hazards, a radiological or nuclear device, and other

explosives. The primary objective of a terrorist is to create widespread fear.

Nevertheless, there are things you can do to prepare for the unexpected andreduce the stress that you may feel now and later, should another

emergency arise.

The Palm Beach County Terrorism Response Program coordinates with the

Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the United States Departmentof Homeland Security to ensure that the Countys terrorism response plan

meets all state and federal requirements. Activities integrated in this

coordination include planning, training, exercising, critical infrastructureenhancement, inter-agency cooperation, as well as grant identification and

expenditure mechanisms to ensure that Palm Beach County has a viable

anti-terrorism program that includes cross-agency training anddevelopment.

The program provides local partner agencies with support and technical

assistance in order to adequately address their homeland security needs. In

addition to the local activities, the program also participates in State andFederal planning groups and task forces.

If you Receive a Bomb Threat:


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Ask the caller the following questions: When is the bomb going to explode?Where is the bomb right now? What kind of bomb is it? What does the

bomb look like? Why did you place the bomb? Where are you calling from?

Record the exact time and length of the call.

Write down the exact words of the caller. Listen carefully to the caller's voice and background noise.

After you hang up, call 9-1-1 immediately from a hard-wired telephone.Do NOT use cell phones to report a bomb threat.

The September 11 attacks (also referred toas September 11, September 11th or9/11[nb 1]) were a series of fourcoordinated suicide attacks upon the United States in New York City and theWashington, D.C., area on September 11, 2001. On that Tuesday morning,19 terrorists from the Islamist militant group al-Qaedahijackedfour passenger jets.The hijackers intentionally crashed two planes, American Airlines Flight 11andUnited

Airlines Flight 175, into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centerin New York City;both towers collapsed within two hours. Hijackers crashed American Airlines Flight77 into the Pentagonin Arlington, Virginia. The fourth jet, United Airlines Flight 93,crashed into a field nearShanksville , Pennsylvania, after passengers attempted totake control before it could reach the hijacker's intended target in Washington,D.C. Nearly 3,000 died in the attacks.

Nuclear disasterA nuclear disaster could take several forms. The most obvious wouldbe a meltdown at a nuclear reactor plant. Though the plant could not

explode, the results of such a disaster would very likely be therelease of massive amounts of radiation and radioactive material

into the environment. And it would take hundreds of years to decay

to anything near "safe" levels. Cleaning it up is out of the question,as exemplified by the Chernobyl disaster. In the Ukraine event, the

reactor actually caught fire and burned. Prypiat is a ghost town. Inthe case of Three Mile Island, the meltdown was contained within

the reactor vessel and the containment building, but there were

some large releases of steam that was heavily laced with theradioactive debris of spent fuel fission fragments. These radioactive

materials, which would normally be contained inside fuel elements,

were released into the primary coolant when a loss-of-coolantaccident overcame the plant.

Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster

The biggest news, by far, right now is the devastation in Japan caused bythe earthquake-tsunami double disaster and, in particular, the damagedone to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma. Ill let
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Detonation of explosives.

Gasolineexplosions, simulating bombdrops at anairshow.

Black smoke from an explosion rising after a bomb detonation inside the outsideNahr al-Bared,Lebanon.

Detonation of a MICLIC to destroy a 1km in depth blast resistant minefield in Iraq.

ExplosionAn explosion is a rapid increase in volume and release ofenergy in anextreme manner, usually with the generation of high temperatures and therelease ofgases. An explosion creates a shock wave. If the shock wave isa supersonicdetonation, then the source of the blast is called a "highexplosive". Subsonic shock waves are created by low explosives throughthe slower burning process known as deflagration.
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Chemical

The most common artificial explosives are chemicalexplosives, usually involving a rapidand violent oxidation reaction that produces large amounts of hot gas. Gunpowderwas

the first explosive to be discovered and put to use. Other notable early developments inchemical explosive technology were Frederick Augustus Abel's development

ofnitrocellulose in 1865and Alfred Nobel's invention ofdynamite in 1866. Chemicalexplosions (both intentional and accidental) are often initiated by an electric

spark orflame. Accidental explosions may occur in fuel tanks, rocket engines, etc.

Electrical and magnetic

A high current electrical fault can create an electrical explosion by forming a high

energy electrical arc which rapidly vaporizes metal and insulation material. This arc

flash hazard is a danger to persons working on energized switchgear. Also,

excessive magnetic pressure within an ultra-strongelectromagnet can cause a magnetic

explosion

Fire disasterFor longer than recorded history, fire has been a source of comfort and catastrophe for

the human race. Fire is rapid, self-sustaining oxidation process accompanied by the

evolution of heat and light in varying intensities. Fire is believed to be based on three

elements being present: fuel, heat and oxidizer. Fire disasters can occur above the

ground (in tall buildings and on planes), on the ground, and below the ground (in

mines). Sometimes they occur incircumstances that are unexpected or unpredictable.

Firestorms can be natural or human- generated. Natural firestorms develop from forest

fires like one happened in Peshtigo,Wisconsin, in 1871. It burned more than 2,000

square miles of forest and killed approximately 2,300 people. Human-generated

firestorms result from incendiary bombing. In Hamburg, Germany, on February 27,1943, the Allied Forces dropped bombs that caused a firestorm, which destroyed 3.2

square miles of the city and killed 21,000 residents. In Dresden, Germany, on February

13 and 14 1945, bombs induced a firestorm that burned 4.6 square miles of the city and

killed 135,000 people.
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