What should I do in the case of a terrorist bombing?

What should I do in the case of a terrorist bombing?

Erroll Southers (Former Deputy Director of the California Department of Homeland Security) gives expert video advice on: What kinds of weapons do terrorists like to use?; How are terrorist bombs typically used?; How likely am I to be a victim of a terrorist bomb? and more...

Well just remember. And I like to make people understand, that we've been through a lot of things as a nation, and as Americans. The results of a bombing are going to be the same as the results of some acts of nature. One bomb goes off, unfortunately people may die. They may get hurt. We may have fires. We may have more explosions. We may have structural collapse. There could be flooding because of pipes that have been ruptured. There's a lot of things. Most importantly we see that people need to get out of an area. The Israelis are great at this. Everybody there is a first responder. That's what we need to do here. Quite often when a bomb goes off in Israel and it's on a bus. Everybody there is going to be helping someone else get away from that area, get first aid, render CPR, try to stabilize victims and wait for the other 'real' first responders, if you will, to get there. So the thing you want to do, is try to get away from that immediate area because of secondary devices. We've seen it here in a number of instances. Eric Rudolph who was taken into custody a few years ago, who you may remember from the 1996 Atlanta Olympic bombings, and several other abortion clinics. His trade was secondary bombs. And his trade was also placing bombs in assembly areas that he... where a bomb threat was phoned in. He put the bomb where people would evacuate the building and then stand. So you want to get away from that area and then you want to render first aid as you would to any other natural disaster that may have happened.