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New PRIMA President Sees Safety Policies Tested Under Fire

Emergency response plan kicked in during sniper attacks; attention turns to pandemic

By Caroline McDonald | Updated on June 11, 2006

Katharine M. Peeling, risk management specialist with the Anne Arundel County public school system in Annapolis, Md., knows first-hand the importance of having a solid emergency response program in place.

A plan written after the Columbine High School massacre in April 1999–in which 13 students were killed and 24 others wounded–was put to the test in October 2002, during the Beltway sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C. area. During those attacks, 10 people were killed and three others critically injured over a three-week period.

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