The Day ‘Stop the Bleed’ Entered Civilian Life
The Boston Marathon bombing changed disaster management.
In a crisis, the best measure of how well a community reacts isn’t the number of lives lost. It’s the number of people who survive. When two homemade bombs went off at the Boston Marathon finish line a decade ago this month, three people died on the scene. But the number of spectators and runners who were treated at local hospitals for injuries, some of them quite severe, was much larger: . Improbably, every single one of them survived. The success of any disaster
