After Action Report for the Response to the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings
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MONDAY, APRIL 15, 2013
7:00 a.m. Multi-Agency Command Center (MACC) is activated with partial staffing at the Massachusetts
Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) Headquarters in Framingham.
Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) Department Operations Center (DOC)
opens and is operational by 8:00 a.m.
8:00 a.m. The City of Boston (the City) Law Enforcement Coordination Center (LECC) is operational at
Boston Police Department (BPD) Headquaters, with representatives of BPD command staff,
Boston Fire Department (BFD), Boston Emergency Medical Services (Boston EMS),
Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) Transit Police (Transit PD), Massachusetts State
Police (MSP), and Boston Regional Intelligence Center (BRIC).
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MDPH staff arrive at their assigned medical tents along the route to provide situational
awareness.
8:10 a.m. MDPH conducts bed counts for Boston-area hospitals through the MDPH WebEOC.
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Boston Medical Intelligence Center (MIC) is operational.
9:00 a.m. The Marathon begins in Hopkinton with mobility-impaired athletes starting down the course,
followed by wheelchairs (9:17), hand-cycles (9:22), elite women (9:32), elite men and Wave 1 of
9,000 runners (10:00), Wave 2 of 9,000 runners (10:20) and Wave 3 of 9,000 runners (10:40).
MACC is fully operational, staffed with more than 80 personnel representing police and fire
departments from Hopkinton, Ashland, Framingham, Natick, Wellesley, Newton, Brookline and
Boston, MEMA, MSP, MBTA Transit PD, Commonwealth Fusion Center (CFC), Massachusetts
Department of Fire Services (DFS), Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT),
MDPH, MDPH Office of Emergency Medical Services (OEMS), Massachusetts National Guard
(MANG), Office of Technology and Information Services (OTIS), American Red Cross (ARC), AMR
Ambulance, Cataldo Ambulance, Fallon Ambulance, Boston EMS, the Boston Athletic
Association (BAA), the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA), the National Weather Service, and Amateur Radio.
10:45 a.m. MDPH staff arrive at Newton Wellesley Hospital and the medical tents at the Finish Line to
provide situational awareness.
11:00 a.m. MDPH conducts initial pre-planned conference call with hospitals to check in and provide
situational awareness.
Approximately 27,000 runners are now on the Marathon course.
11:05 a.m. Start of Red Sox game at Fenway Park in the Kenmore Square area of Boston.
12:00 p.m. MDPH conducts initial pre-planned conference call with staff in medical tents along the route
to obtain situational awareness regarding the level of activity in the tents related to providing
support to injured runners.
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The LECC was called the Unified Command Center at the time, and was renamed to the Law Enforcement Coordination
Center in 2014. To avoid confusion with the Unified Command Center that was activated at the Westin Hotel following
the bombings, this facility will be referred to as the LECC throughout this report.
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WebEOC is an online information-sharing tool used by many public safety partners. On the day of the 2013 Boston
Marathon, the MACC used the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (WebEOC) system and the MDPH WebEOC
system. These systems were integrated for Marathon Day.