- Author
- Federal Emergency Management Agency
- Title
- Report of the Joint Fire/Police Task Force on Civil Unrest. Recommendations for Organization and Operations During Civil Distrubance.
- Coporate
- Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC
- Report
- FA-142, February 1994, 97 p.
- Distribution
- AVAILABLE FROM: U.S. Fire Administration (USFA), 16825 South Seton Ave., Emmitsburg, MD 21727. Telephone: 301-447-1000. Website: http://www.usfa.fema.gov
- Keywords
- civil distrubances | training | riots
- Identifiers
- Concerned about the possible escalation in the incidents of riots and other forms of civil unrest and about the ability of firefighters to deal effectively with such situations in the context of the 1990s, the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA), in cooperation with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), assembled a task force in June 1992 of the nation's leading fire chiefs, who were later joined by their police counterparts. The newly formed Task Force on Civil Unrest convened a series of meetings over the next seven months to analyze the April 1992 Los Angeles civil disorders and to share what proved to be valuable experiences in dealing with civil unrest, from the viewpoints of both fire and police agencies. The Task Force was successful in reaching its goal-to formulate a plan of joint action to combat civil unrest in the U.S. today.