Fatality Management During a Pandemic and Other Emergency Events

Fatality Management Resources

• Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response: Decedent Management During Disasters
• Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Respone: Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Teams
• Alabama Department of Public Health: Fatality Management Conference - Legal Issues
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Guidelines for Handling Decedents Contaminated with Radioactive Materials
• Federal Emergergency Management Agency: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic - Mass Casualty Management Best Practices
• Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene: Best Practices of Highly Infectious Decedent Management
• National Library of Medicine: Fatality Management Strategies
• Rural Health Information Hub: Emergency Preparedness and Response for Mass Casualty Incidents
• Santa Clara County Public Health Department Advanced Practice Center: Managing Mass Fatalities - A Toolkit for Planning
• Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange: Mass Violence/Active Shooter Incidents - Fatality Management

Partners

• Alabama Board of Funeral Services
• Alabama Coroners Association
• Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences

Training Opportunities

• FEMA EMI Mass Fatalities Incident Response Course (G0386) for mass fatality management planning and operations to assess a jurisdiction’s preparedness level. 
• FEMA CDP Healthcare Facility Mass Fatality Management Course (HCV13 AWR-934-V13) for mass fatality management planning and preparedness considerations in a healthcare facility. 
• Center for Rural Development’s Mass Fatalities Planning and Response for Rural Communities Course (AWR-232) for rural and tribal planning considerations for an awareness level review of mass fatality response.

A Guide to Requesting Assistance After a Mass Fatality Incident

The Alabama Mutual Aid System has prepared "A Guide to Requesting Assistance After a Mass Fatality Incident" to provide information to county coroners, medical examiners, and local emergency management directors about the resources available in  Alabama. The full guide is available for download below.

• A Guide to Requesting Assistance After a Mass Fatality Incident