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Fatality Management is the branch of a mass fatality incident response accountable for the recovery, examination, and identification of the victims, as well as attending to the immediate needs of the victims’ families.
A Mass Fatality Incident (MFI) is any natural or manmade incident of scale or complexity, which requires special operations to recover, examine, and identify the victims.
Chain of Custody is the legal process of the chronological documentation of the handling, transferal, and examination of remains, evidence, and personal effects from the time of initial recovery to final disposition.
Introduction
Mass fatality management (MFM) is a fundamental component of a mass disaster/fatality response. Though less publicly discussed prior to a disaster than other aspects of the operation, the accurate and efficient execution of fatality management will have a lasting impact on the...
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Warnasch, S.C., Carroll, E. (2017). Fatality Management in Crises. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2611-1
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