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• Responding to the Active Shooter

  10-11-2018 01:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Starting on the job in a large metropolitan city in the early spring of 1994, I never trained to respond to an active threat the way we do today. Barricaded gunman response, civil disturbance, and setting up a perimetCer to wait for the SWAT team was what I knew.After the Columbine High School Massacre in 1999, we in law enforcement changed how we respond to active threat calls. The days of waiting outside and containing the incident were long gone and now the attitude was get in there and stop
  
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• Malfunctioning Water Heater Blamed for School Shooting Scare in North Carolina

  10-11-2018 00:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Faulty mechanical equipment which was making a sound that resembled gunfire is believed to have led to calls of an active shooter situation at Topsail High School in Pender County, NC. No evidence of a shooter was ever found and no injuries were reported."When I arrived on scene, what I heard sounded like gunfire," explained Sheriff Carson Smith. "Everyone did exactly what they were supposed to do."Smith said stress levels were high as the calls came in and he could hear the sound of gunshots in
  
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