ANTHROP 3FA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Natural Disaster, Commingling, Boxing Day
26 Apr 2019
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Positive id & expert testimony recap: positive id not always possible, probable or tentative id, compare antemortem (am) records to postmortem (pm, medical and dental, radiographs, photographs . What is a mass disaster: can be a, natural phenomena. E. g. tsunami, earthquake, tornado, etc: accidental. E. g a vehicle collision, pipeline explosion, stadium collapse, etc: criminal. Natural disaster: haiti earthquake (2010, boxing day tsumani in thailand (2004, hurricane katrina (2005) Accidental mass disaster: germanwings flight (2015, hinton rail collision (1986) Criminal mass disasters: 9/11, oklahoma city bombing (1995) Mass fatalities: mass fatality incident (mfi, can overwhelm local facilities and resources, high volume surge of fatalities, can require the assistance of outside organizations, e. g. Dmort, interpol: complicated scenes, comingling: biological remains, personal effects, other diagnostic evidence, can be distributed over large areas (meters to kms, time constraints (based on decomposition) Disaster response and management protocols: emergency measures, plans, training programs, education, public safety canada, regulates & manages disaster responses.
