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CHEMICAL SUICIDEThe Emerged Threat

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Emerging

• Caught media attention after over 500 men, women and children took their own lives by mixing chemicals to create lethal gases in first half of 2008 in Japan.

• U.S. cases started to appear in Summer of 2008 in Pasadena, California.

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Emerged

• 0615: Call is placed to Clemson University Dispatch reporting an unconscious person.

• CUFD-EMS and Central Police respond• Arrived and Entered Apartment • Noticed Chemicals• Exits the Apartment• Calls Fire and HAZMAT

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Indicators

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Considerations

• What resources are needed for this incident?• Who “owns” the chemicals?• Who declares the apartment safe for entry,

removal of items or for occupancy?• Who has a stake in this incident?• Are there codes or ordinances supporting

needed actions?• Where does Emergency Management fit in?


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