LAFD tactical guidelines from 2008

Los Angeles City fire of­fi­cials are dra­mat­ic­ally chan­ging how res­cuers re­spond to mass shoot­ings after a gun­man with a high-powered rifle mor­tally wounded a fed­er­al se­cur­ity of­ficer in a shoot­ing ram­page last month at Los Angeles In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

A new train­ing bul­let­in is­sued in Novem­ber re­places the pre­vi­ous pro­ced­ures doc­u­mented be­low.

The new goal is to have Los Angeles Fire De­part­ment para­med­ics and fire­fight­ers rap­idly enter po­ten­tially dan­ger­ous areas dur­ing act­ive shoot­ing in­cid­ents sprees to treat vic­tims and rush them to hos­pit­al trauma cen­ters.