Greg Ellifritz highlights a couple issues with mandatory evacuations in the face of a bomb threat in his article, "Two Contemporary Training Issues to Ponder." His focus is a recent evacuation at a Tennessee high school after it received a bomb threat. The students were--per standard practice--evacuated to a nearby football field where there was no shade, where they sat (or stood) for nearly an hour. Twenty-one students had to be treated for a heat injury, with 3 students in critical condition.
The first point that Greg raises is the rise in the number of people--and this is something he's noticed in classes he teaches--that suffer from heat injuries in warm weather, which he attributes to a few causes including lack of acclimation to heat due to our air conditioned world.
The second point is his belief (and one held by security experts) that not every bomb threat deserves evacuation. In fact, he notes, there is probably a greater risk of someone planting a bomb in the rally point for the evacuees than trying to sneak it into a high school (particularly nowadays where entrance to a school is more tightly controlled than in the past).
Anyway, an interesting read, so check out the whole thing.
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