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09/26/2026

In an active shooter event, getting your message out is only half the job.

Media, parents, social media: if you're not controlling the flow of information, it's controlling you. And control isn't just pushing your statement out. Someone has to be watching what's coming back in, because what's being said about your incident can shape your tactical decision-making and a lot more.

Focus only on what you want to put out, and you miss what's already out there. That's how you sell yourself short and end up making calls with half the picture.

Watch the full episode for the rest of the conversation: https://youtu.be/SMdJsQFu5wA

09/25/2026

What in your emergency plan still works when the network chokes?

When thousands of people converge on one place, cell networks and Wi-Fi get overloaded. There are documented cases of both going down outright. Text messages usually still get through when calls and data won’t. Big file transfers and live connections to a server? Don’t count on them.

That is one of the single points of failure Module 13 of SSAVEIM Foundations (School Safety and Violent Event Incident Management) identifies. The module doesn't fix them. It tells you which ones to go hunt for on your own campus.

Watch the short clip below, then the full module — 2:49 start to finish 👉 https://ncier.org/ssaveim/foundations

SSAVEIM Foundations is a free, on-demand training course for school staff and emergency responders. The whole course runs under an hour — take the modules at your own pace, complete the Post-Tests and earn a certificate.

Congratulations to 21 new Active Shooter Incident Management (ASIM) Basic Trainers!Last week, responders from 17 agencie...
09/24/2026

Congratulations to 21 new Active Shooter Incident Management (ASIM) Basic Trainers!

Last week, responders from 17 agencies completed ASIM Basic Train-the-Trainer in the Milwaukee, WI. They're now certified to teach ASIM Basic in their own departments.

That means more police, fire, EMS and emergency management personnel across the region will train on the same checklist and speak the same language when it matters most.

Each new trainer leaves with the full ASIM Basic curriculum, ASIM Checklists, slides and scenario scripts, LMS access, and a three-year trainer certificate. NCIER charges no per-delivery training fee for internal, non-commercial use.

Want in-house ASIM Basic trainers in your region? Learn how to host a Train-the-Trainer 👉 https://ncier.org/asim/basic?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=s

Thank you to Milwaukee Fire Department for hosting us at the MKE Urban Stables, and to every agency that sent people.

09/24/2026

Nobody loves sitting in a room listing everything that went sideways. It feels negative. But asking "how do you mess this up?" is one of the most useful questions you can put on the table.

Overconvergence on the scene? Name it. Agree not to do it. Move on.

That's not dwelling on failure. That's how the lesson actually sticks, and it's why the crew that talks openly about its mistakes makes better decisions the next time out. We don't think about it in those terms often enough.

Full episode linked below. Worth a listen before your next after-action review.

🎧 https://youtu.be/T3xQ4IDCxAg

09/23/2026

The threat is over. Hundreds of parents are on their way to campus, and every one of them needs the same answer: where is my child?

Module 12 of SSAVEIM Foundations (School Safety and Violent Event Incident Management) covers the accountability process — the structure that tracks every student from the moment the campus is cleared to the moment a parent walks out with their child.

Most people assume it’s a headcount. It isn’t. There are named roles, a paper trail that keeps working when the network doesn’t, and one person who can say where every child is, where they were, and where they went.

The goal is to get kids back to their parents as fast as possible while maintaining security and accountability. If that sounds more complicated than you expected, you’re right.

Watch the short clip, then the full module: https://ncier.org/ssaveim/foundations

SSAVEIM Foundations is a free, on-demand training course for school staff and emergency responders. The whole course runs under an hour — take the modules at your own pace, complete the Post-Tests and earn a certificate.

09/22/2026

A school full of children. A violent event. Hundreds of parents wanting their kids back. Where do they go?

Most reunification plans name a location for this. Far fewer have tested it.

Start with the parking. A school of a thousand students can draw more than two thousand cars. Very few buildings have that much pavement. Module 11 of SSAVEIM Foundations (School Safety and Violent Event Incident Management) covers this and more in 2:35 — from what has to be true before the location is announced to what goes up inside before the first parent arrives.

Don’t wait for the worst day to discover your best reunification site. Identify candidates now. Walk them with your law enforcement partners and write them into a plan. A site you've tested is a site that you know works under pressure.

Watch the short clip below, then the full module 👉 https://ncier.org/ssaveim/foundations

SSAVEIM Foundations is a free, on-demand training course for school staff and emergency responders. The whole course runs under an hour — take the modules at your own pace, complete the Post-Tests and earn a certificate.

09/22/2026

After a shooting, we know a lot. What happened. Where. What the gunman was doing. Whether he had body armor.

Here's what we don't know: what the injuries actually were.

That data is built for the law enforcement side. Bring the same incident to fire and EMS, and the question that matters most goes unanswered — were those injuries survivable? Could a tourniquet have changed the outcome?

Knowing it's a shooting tells you people are hit. It doesn't tell you what you're walking into.

Watch the full episode for the rest of the conversation: https://youtu.be/1PBM6G3saFw

09/21/2026

Law enforcement will usually push to move reunification offsite. The campus is a crime scene.

Now move two or three thousand students.

Module 10 of SSAVEIM Foundations (School Safety and Violent Event Incident Management) works through that tension. Offsite or onsite is not a default. It is a decision the Unified Command team makes together — every agency with legal authority at one table — weighing the scene against the logistics. And the incident commander can shrink the crime scene, maybe down to a single building, freeing up the rest of the campus.

Sometimes offsite is right. Sometimes onsite is. And, spoiler alert: that football field in your plan might not be the best choice.

Watch the short clip below, then the full module — 2:38 start to finish 👉 https://ncier.org/ssaveim/foundations

SSAVEIM Foundations is a free, on-demand training course for school staff and emergency responders. The whole course runs under an hour — take the modules at your own pace, complete the Post-Tests and earn a certificate.

09/19/2026

In the unfolding minutes of an active shooter response, dispatch is often holding the clearest picture of what's happening. So why does that intel get pushed aside?

In this clip, NCIER instructor Kami Maertz makes the case that the failure usually isn't bad information — it's responders not trusting the information they're being handed. You talk yourself into "I'm not hearing that" or "we're not seeing that on scene," and a report about an injured person in a specific room gets written off.

Her guidance is simple: if what dispatch is telling you doesn't match what you're seeing, that's not a reason to disregard it. Go check it. Verify it. And on the dispatch side — keep reinforcing what you have, especially when multiple callers are reporting the same thing.

Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/7gAUGylWCX4

09/17/2026

Hours after the shooting stops, a classroom door is still locked from the inside. How you open it matters.

Module 9 of SSAVEIM Foundations (School Safety and Violent Event Incident Management) — The Clearing Conundrum — is about what happens after the shooting stops, when officers still have to search every room, closet, and space on campus before anyone can say it's truly safe.

This module walks through the tough calls that come next: how big the crime scene should be, how to enter a locked room where kids have been hiding for hours without treating them like suspects, and how the route out of the building can protect both evidence and young eyes.

Check out the clip, then watch the full module at: https://ncier.org/ssaveim/foundations

SSAVEIM Foundations is a free, on-demand training course for school staff and emergency responders. The whole course runs under an hour — take the modules at your own pace, complete the Post-Tests and earn a certificate.

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