CHEMICAL SUICIDE The Emerged Threat

CHEMICAL SUICIDEThe Emerged Threat

Emerging • Caught media attention after over 500 men, women and children took their own lives by mixing chemicals to create lethal gases in first half of 2008 in Japan. • U.S. cases started to appear in Summer of 2008 in Pasadena, California.

Emerged • 0615: Call is placed to Clemson University Dispatch reporting an unconscious person. • CUFD-EMS and Central Police respond • Arrived and Entered Apartment • Noticed Chemicals • Exits the Apartment • Calls Fire and HAZMAT

Indicators

Considerations • What resources are needed for this incident? • Who “owns” the chemicals? • Who declares the apartment safe for entry, removal of items or for occupancy? • Who has a stake in this incident? • Are there codes or ordinances supporting needed actions? • Where does Emergency Management fit in?

CHEMICAL SUICIDE The Emerged Threat

CHEMICAL SUICIDE The Emerged Threat

Presentation Transcript

The Invisible Threat

The Nuclear Threat

The Suicide debate

The Insider Threat

Overview of the Chemical Threat Laboratory of Texas

Mean Emerged SWD

… the INSIDER THREAT

Chemical Suicide

CHEMICAL SUICIDE

The Threat of Chemical Weapons

The Threat Environment

Chemical Terrorism and Threat (CTAT ) Testing Capabilities

Emerged Technologies ISDN

The Threat Within

Emerged Technologies FDDI

The Threat Landscape

The European threat

Does the threat of commit suicide amount to Coercion

Does the threat of commit suicide amount to Coercion

The Threat Landscape

The competitive threat!

Suicide Risk and Violence Threat Assessment