Seattle police Capt. Dan Nelson and King County Undersheriff Jeff Flohr are among the core group of local, state and federal officials who’ve spent the last 2 ½ years imagining horrifying scenarios and planning how to respond to them during the six upcoming FIFA Men’s World Cup matches at Lumen Field.
People getting crushed in crowds. Brawls breaking out. Vehicles ramming into large groups of pedestrians. Drones carrying dangerous payloads.
“There are just a myriad of issues — if you can think of it, we probably have a contingency for how to respond to it,” Nelson said. “It really has been an exercise in emergency management, planning and ensuring we have the appropriate contingencies identified or at least the staffing to be responsive in the case of some type of tragedy.”…