It's not uncommon to have a vehicle accident with 5 patients and also declare that an MCI. That just means the first responders were overwhelmed by the amount of patients and injuries and they need to declare an MCI, which prompts a number of things: additional emergency personnel, overhead to manage the incident, notifies local hospitals so they can start taking action prior to patient arrival, etc.

Another vote for BackupPC. I use this in addition to NDMP and VMDK backups from Backup Exec for better granular restores. Backup Exec writes to tape, BackupPC writes to attached storage.