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DISASTERS: CURRENT PLANNING AND RECENT EXPERIENCE

01 January 1991

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DISASTERS: CURRENT PLANNING AND RECENT EXPERIENCE
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BOOKS/PAMPHLETS , User Ref = 614.8 , Acc Date = 14-Feb-90
M Walsh
Edward Arnold, 1989 230pp, diags, tables RB47747

Discusses the need for disaster planning, the nature of
disasters, injuries associated with blasts, psychology of
disasters, and the role of the media, emergency services and
local authority emergency planning officers. Case studies of
recent major incidents, including Tottenham riots in London,
Manchester International Airport fire, Bradford City Football
Club fire, the Abbeystead Water Pumping Station explosion and the
M6 crash in 1985, are presented to help improve disaster
planning.

radiation, Chernobyl, nuclear accident, accident, terrorism,
bomb, sport, first aid, hospital, police, ambulance
Lockerbie, Scotland, Russia, United Kingdom

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