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Florida Matters: EMS Active Shooter Response Since Pulse

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The Pulse nightclub shooting on June 12, 2016 was, at the time, the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, leaving 49 dead.

What if more victims could have lived? This year a peer-reviewed study concluded 16 victims died with potentially survivable wounds.

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Health News Florida reporter Abe Aboraya teamed up with ProPublica to investigate why paramedics didn't go into Pulse until after the shooter was dead. He produced a two-part broadcast series, which we hear this week on Florida Matters.

We also speak with John Montes, Emergency Services Specialist with the National Fire Protection Association,about the group’s new standards for responding to active shooter situations.

You can hear an extended conversation with Montes on our podcast Florida Matters More.

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Robin is Senior Editor at WUSF, spearheading the station's podcasting initiatives and helping to guide the vision for special reporting projects and creative storytelling. She hosts the weekly current affairs program, Florida Matters, on WUSF and also created The Zest, the station's podcast that's all about food, which she continues to host and serve as senior producer.
Health News Florida reporter Abe Aboraya works for WMFE in Orlando. He started writing for newspapers in high school. After graduating from the University of Central Florida in 2007, he spent a year traveling and working as a freelance reporter for the Seattle Times and the Seattle Weekly, and working for local news websites in the San Francisco Bay area. Most recently Abe worked as a reporter for the Orlando Business Journal. He comes from a family of health care workers.
Stephanie Colombini joined WUSF Public Media in December 2016 as Producer of Florida Matters, WUSF’s public affairs show. She’s also a reporter for WUSF’s Health News Florida project.