active shooters

Conway Regional Medical Center staff hosted an active shooter training Saturday, giving several law enforcement agencies and other first responders in the area the opportunity to collectively train and prepare themselves should we be faced locally with an active shooter situation. Several agencies ...

OAK CREEK — A local church invited people to learn how to prepare and protect themselves in the case of an active shooter situation. The Peaceful Warrior Training Group was at the Faith Baptist Church of Greater Milwaukee in Oak Creek on Saturday, April 28. The program taught people about different ...

Clark decided to institute an active shooter drill this year for a more realistic simulation. While the Feb. 14 school shooting in Parkland, Fla., was an “impetus” for the active shooter exercise, Clark had “always thought that we should have drills at times when kids aren't in class.” Another reason for the ...

Since the April 1999 shooting at Columbine High School, which left 13 people dead, “We've continued to bear witness to an increased frequency of active shooters, not just in schools but in soft targets such as churches, workplaces, venues such as a Waffle House, the Las Vegas Strip,” Bill Barna, president ...

HIGH POINT — It's information police hope local businesses and organizations never have to put into action, but preparing for the worst could mean the difference between life and death. From the mass shooting in a Texas church in November to a February shooting at a Florida high school and a gunman ...

He explained that police response time and decreasing target availability are keys to fewer deaths in an active shooter event. He pointed out that active shooters lack the ability to reason and are dedicated to the destruction of themselves and those around them. He warned that there will be many medical ...

The classes, one focused on active-shooter scenarios and the other on personal safety, will take place in May. "As a police chief, you're always fighting that perception of fear," Camacho said. "This is something that maybe with just a little education and awareness I can combat that perception and let people ...

Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter. SPRINGDALE, Pa. (KDKA) – Perhaps as bit of a coincidence with Steel Valley High School being on lockdown, Springdale High School was the scene of an active shooter drill Friday. Students, teachers and dozens of emergency teams took the time to prepare for the ...

DORA — School staff and nurses from Walker County schools gathered at Dora High School Wednesday afternoon to participate in active shooter training. "There's a major shooting every three weeks," said Jeris Crump, a certified ALICE instructor who lead the course. "There's some type of shooting ...

Long defined an active shooter as an individual who is actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area. In most cases, active shooters use firearms, with no apparent pattern or method to select their victims. The incident typically lasts only 10 to 15 minutes, Long said.

With tragedies like the school shooting in Parkland, Florida becoming more common, insurance companies are beginning to offer "active assailant" or "active shooter" insurance to organizations like schools and private businesses. "It is a little startling now to get all these calls now to say 'is there insurance for this?' and 'how ...

Use these lessons from active shooter exercises I have observed to develop best practices for designing, implementing and executing a worthwhile, productive and enlightening exercise to better prepare all emergency responders to respond to an active killer. The following active shooter incident (ASI) training exercise ...

The University is the 32nd safest college campus in the country this year, according to the National Council for Home Safety and Security. However, with mass shootings dominating the news, this safety ranking has not decreased the number of trainings the University Police Department has been ...

The focus of Tuesday's drill was barricading to deter an intruder, including the possibility of an active shooter. Devnich coached her students in a calm voice as they waited in the dark for the “all clear.” "We're just going to sit and hang out," she said, as the minutes ticked by. "Think about escape routes.

St. Lucie County sheriff's officials Monday conducted an active shooter training exercise for about two dozen school resource deputies at the St. Lucie County School Board Offices on Okeechobee Road. The school district and Sheriff Ken Mascara last week assigned school resource officers to elementary ...

“So many times you read about these active shooter situations where they hear a gun going off like that and they think it's something different,” Green explained. “You're programmed to think 'I'm safe all the time,' right? So when you hear something like that you think, 'I've got to take some action on this.'”.

The Columbine shooting in April 1999 radically transformed law enforcement practices where frontline police officers would no longer wait outside of a crisis point during an active killer event. However, there was another lesson lurking in the aftermath of Columbine that has taken police, fire and EMS almost 20 years to ...

There's a new set of loud, defiant voices that arrived on the scene last week that makes diversity a whole lot more inclusive. Make way for the heretofore-ignored minors of all stripes and sizes. They are now their own group, the post-millennials, persons under the age of 18, who after Parkland can no longer ...

You might think that the local church is not the place you would expect residents to gather to learn how to best protect themselves from an active shooter. You know the world is radically a changed place when the church draws more for the training program than it does on some Sunday mornings. A group of ...

Since the 1999 mass shooting at Columbine High School, McGee said law enforcement updated their training standards to better handle active shooters. He said the Sheriff's Office takes an average of six minutes to respond to an active shooter situation, compared with the 10-minute average for law ...

ANCHORAGE, Ala.– Students at a high school in Alaska experienced a realistic active shooter drill last week complete with simulated gunfire. During the scenario, KTVA reports students in the area where the “shooter” was located piled furniture against the classroom doors to barricade themselves in.

A day care teacher for 29 years, Thompson never imagined practicing an active shooter drill with the young children she spends her days with. "It's harder for this age group, but if you do songs already that they know, and you go in there for a quiet drill and you keep them quiet," said Thompson. "We do ...

"We are re-writing our active shooter policy and part of the reason we re-wrote that policy was because of what happened in Florida," said Childress. In just a few days, it will be a month since the day Nickolas Cruz, 19, was accused of firing a weapon and killing 17 people at Parkland High School in Florida.

Police Superintendent Michael Harrison said the department was “happy” to partner with the school board on the training. "It's very unfortunate that we find ourselves in a society, a time that we … even have to talk about active shooters in places of worship and in schools," Harrison said. "But the time of ...

The principal also said that he felt the video was necessary training in the event of an active shooter incident at the school. “However, the goal was to hopefully get everyone in the mindset that situations like Columbine and other school shootings are prevalent and relevant in our society today and that the ...

A new program in Tazewell County will teach middle and high school students not only to be aware of potential threats but also how to better handle an active shooter situation. Sgt. Ron Holt with the Tazewell County Sheriff's Office has already given teachers and school staff active shooter training.

TROY — After months of planning, Troy High School will host an active-shooter training Friday involving local and state law enforcement agencies. Burdett Avenue will be closed between Sage and Tibbitts avenues from 8 a.m. to noon Friday. Residents and motorists may notice a large amount of law ...

Smith said his office is offering “active shooter training” to churches in the area so people are prepared if something happens. “Mitigation is what my office really pushes in everything. How to be prepared and limit your exposure to anything that could happen to you,” Smith said. “It's sad that we've become a ...

The session is part of a continuing partnership between the Orleans Parish School Board and the New Orleans Police Department aimed at increasing training for both police and school staff in the event of an active shooter on a school campus. The training includes a video, an active shooter simulation ...