Herzog said besides the sounds of gunfire, smoke, lighting and other sound effects were used to increase responders' stress levels and make the exercise as realistic as possible both for learning and to enable officers to feel they've experienced it before if and when they are in a real active shooter situation. The departments also were trying out a joint approach in which medical first responders can get to victims more quickly. He said township police have been conducting active shooter exercises for several years, but this was the first large-scale exercise with the fire department. Police Chief Joel Herzog said township police officials attended a briefing on that shooting by the Butler County sheriff's office to learn from its experience. 29, injuring four students, none fatally. "So we want to be prepared."Ī student at nearby Madison Schools opened fire with a handgun in a school cafeteria Feb. "The active shooter situation is a very important concept for us to understand and study, because we realize that it's not a matter of where, it's a matter of when," said Township Fire Chief Rick Prinz. Lakota Schools and the West Chester police and fire departments collaborated on the hours-long exercise Wednesday with the help of some 200 school and community volunteers. WEST CHESTER, Ohio - Young actors, some with limbs and clothes appearing to be blood-covered, ran screaming out of a school building with sounds of blank ammunition gunfire popping behind them Wednesday as a suburban school district and township authorities in southwest Ohio trained for the nightmare scenario of a shooter on a rampage.
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