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Disaster planning expert warns of another attack Grim. There's no other way to describe those words voiced by Curtis Massey, president and CEO of Massey Enterprises Inc., whose expertise is helping commercial real estate owners nationwide develop disaster plans for their buildings. "These [terrorists] are very methodical. The contact I have within the FBI Urban Terrorism Task Force believes that the next attack is going to be even bigger than the World Trade Center attack, which is mind-boggling."

Despite threats of another terrorist attack on U.S. soil, too many owners of high-profile properties have lapsed into complacency on the disaster-planning front and are unwilling to invest the time and money needed to prepare their buildings for large-scale fire department operations, says Massey.

"Pre-planning the building for the fire department's operations is the most important element of a building's disaster-preparedness program - not concrete barriers, security guards or turnstiles," says Massey. "The more information you provide the emergency responders, the more apt they are to make sensible decisions to bring the situation under control."

The preceding was an excerpt from a column written by Matt Valley for AC&SS sister publication National Real Estate Investor. Read the entire article at nreionline.com

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