Rescue Task Force Runs Through an Active Shooter Exercise

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Photos by Laurie O’Brien

On April 1, 2015, a ThurstonTalk camera was on site for an Active Shooter Drill held at South Puget Sound Community College.

Sponsored by Homeland Security Region 3, the drill conducted by the Olympia Police Department and the Olympia Fire Department included participants from over 30 local and regional agencies including the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office and all local police and fire departments. Units from Joint Base Lewis-McChord and surrounding counties either participated or send observers to watch and learn.

Seventy-five community volunteers played victims in the scenario and were made up with realistic looking wounds and fake blood to simulate victims of a mass shooting.

The drill took nearly two years to plan and is the official roll out of the new Rescue Task Force initiatives and Unified Command protocols being implemented by the OFD and OPD.

To read more about how the OFD has been preparing, you can read this ThurstonTalk article: Working to Keep Us Safe.

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