The first alarm of a mass casualty incident may reach the Major Incident Hosptal in several ways via:
- Major Incident Hospital
- ER Department
- National Poison Control Centre (NVIC)
- Centre of the UMC Utrecht.
The receiver of the message notifies:
- Name and telephone number of the reporter
- Place or agency where the reporter is located
- Type of the mass casualty incident
- Place of the mass casualty incident.
If the first alarm is reported
outside ordinary business hours, the centralist of the centre of the UMC warns:
- Nurse of the ER
- Nurse of Intensive Care
- Commanding officer in charge of the fire department of the UMC.
These three officials generate the Co-ordination Team and come together in the ER as soon as possible. Subsequently they go through the checklist "Co-ordination tasks".
Within ordinary business hours the Commanding Team is warned.