The board this morning

Dallas police report four dead, 15 injured in separate Halloween-night shootings as violence spans the weekend

By The FirstResponders Desk

Good morning. Law enforcement and EMS lead the day. The Guardian reports Dallas police say four people are dead and 15 injured after three separate shootings in the Deep Ellum neighborhood, and that police are still working to determine whether the shootings are linked. Treat that as an open, possibly connected series: scene integrity, shared witnesses and overlapping casualty tracking matter until police say otherwise.

Other shootings are reported but not attributed to a named agency in this material, so hold the numbers loosely. CBS News reports a fatal shooting outside Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama; no casualty figure here is tied to a named agency. Fox News reports shootings near college communities in Indiana, Alabama and Delaware, and the New York Post reports a shooting near Michigan State University in East Lansing — again with no agency-attributed counts in this material. ABC News reports multiple shootings nationwide over the weekend without an agency-sourced total. SFGATE reports a shooting inside a Spirit Halloween store in Fairfield, California; this is unconfirmed by any agency, and the gunman is reported still at large. If your area borders any of these, expect BOLOs and after-action notifications.

Smaller LE notes: NJ.com reports police say video showed a man holding the weapon when he was shot in the leg in a New Jersey street scene — police say it appears self-inflicted. Cleveland.com reports, via a Westlake Police Department release, a wrong-way I-90 pursuit that began on Oct. 29 — a reminder on pursuit and wrong-way positioning. The Tampa Bay Times reports a 15-year-old Florida missing-person case has been resolved. The New York Post reports an officer was disciplined after pulling a gun on a coworker over microwaved fish.

Rescue and EMS: NBC News reports the FAA said a Learjet 60 bound for the Bahamas crashed in Florida on Sunday afternoon with nine people on board. The Los Angeles Times reports officers rescued a man trapped three days in an 18-inch drain pipe in Riverside — a confined-space reminder.

Emergency management: NWS Albuquerque has severe Flood Warnings in effect for San Juan, New Mexico. Separately, flash floods and evacuations reported in Arizona and Colorado are unconfirmed by any agency.

Fire: satellite fire detections reported over Washington, Texas, Idaho, Oregon and California are unconfirmed by any agency — treat as leads to verify, not active incidents. Firefighter Close Calls marks Nov. 1, 1901, when two firefighters were fatally injured in a Youngstown, Ohio livery-stable collapse — a collapse-risk note for structural work.

What to watch: whether Dallas police link the three scenes, the Fairfield suspect status, and the New Mexico flood warnings.