Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team

Information Technology in an MCI or Disaster Serious emergencies, disasters and crises have become increasingly frequent in the recent years. In the past several decades, natural and man-made disasters have taken over 3 million innocent lives and badly affected millions more. When a disaster strikes, many lives may be saved by emergency crisis response. In fact, mass-casualty incident and disaster response is considered to be one of the biggest challenges for an emergency response system of…

Dead men Floating Summary When a bad storm entered the small town of Hardin, Missouri the river of Missouri overflowed its banks and flooded the town. The flood water covered more than twenty million acres of land. Fifty five thousand homes were ether destroyed or damaged. Exactly fifty people died.The damages would cost up to fifteen billion dollars. The bad thing about it was Hardin was only six miles north of the Missouri river so the town people knew it was only a matter of time before…

Dead Men Floating Away You would think that the people in Hardin, Missouri would be tried already. When a flood in 1993 washes away the bones of loved ones in the cemetery, they have to In 1993 rivers in Missouri began to overflow. The town of Hardin, Missouri was affected by this. Flood waters covered over 20 million acres of land! 50 people died, 55,000 homes were destroyed, and 15 billion dollars was destroyed in damaged. While the flood was something to worry about, the residents of…

The Role of Forensic Science in Mass Disasters Mass disasters are an all too familiar reality. The cause of such occurrences can be natural or human influence. Natural disaster include hurricanes, tornados, and volcanos amongst other occurrence (Sudoyo, Widodo, Suryadi, Lie, Safari, Widjajanto, Kadarmo, 2008). Un-natural, or those occurring due to human involvement, are bombings, plane crashes, or mass shootings. Mass disasters usually require extensive logistical support (Prinz, Carracedo,…

Due to the unique methods and the improving technologies over the year’s cases such as John Wayne Gacy, the World Trade Center disaster, and the Hardin Cemetery Flood have given families closure to their loved ones whom remains were once marked as un-indefinable. In this following report, the reader will be introduced to the inside clues and techniques of the three cases mentioned…