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Don’t worry, it’s just a drill
Active shooter training exercise held in Bristol By Gail Peckler-Dziki CORRESPONDENT
It was like the gathering of the clans – the public safety clans. On April 1, more than 19 agencies came together to conduct the “school active shooter” full-scale exercise at several different sites. The exercise was planned and hosted by Kenosha County Emergency Management and funded by a homeland security grant through the State of Wisconsin. The drill started at the Kenosha County Center, and then moved to Bristol Grade School. Bristol and Salem fire and rescue were both involved. Students from Westosha Central High School volunteered as “victims.” “We want to improve the initial interaction between fire and rescue with law enforcement so we can get to the victims as quickly as possible,” explained Bristol Fire Chief Pete Parker. Salem Fire Chief Mike Slover added, “The various fire and rescue and law enforcement agencies have been working together to improve communication. We work together very well and this exercise gives us an opportunity to improve interagency communication.” When multiple agencies work together at the scene of any emergency, a unified command is created and an exercise like this one gives various local agencies the opportunity to further develop the skills and relationships needed to improve on past successes. The sooner rescue can get to victims, the more lives that will be saved. One way to do that is continually improving interagency communication. Any time there is a fire or larger-scale emergency, multiple agencies will arrive on the
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Several different agencies took part in a mock disaster drill April 1, with the situation of an active shooter being the focus of the event. Above: Det. Jeff Bliss advances on the school. At right: Pleasant Prairie Rescue takes a mock victim out of Bristol School.
scene. Each agency has limited resources and each agency has something to offer. The exercise began with a simulated call to 911 dispatch about a man in the district office, shouting and threatening people. The simulated call disconnected when the man pulled a gun. As it proceeded, the simulation included another phone call from a caller describing events as they occurred. The unified command post was then formed and plans put into place for victims. In addition to the agencies already mentioned, other involved agencies were Wisconsin Emergency Management; KCSD and Central Dispatch; Bristol and Kenosha Police Departments; Wisconsin State Patrol; Pleasant Prairie, Somers, Paris and Twin Lakes Fire and Rescue; Silver Lake Fire; Kenosha County Medical Examiners office; Bristol School District; Aurora Medical Center and United Hospital System. After the drill, Parker explained that various agencies in Kenosha County have been working together for the past several years on the pieces that make up a full-scale disaster response. “About two years ago,” he said, “the area fire chiefs and the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department started talking about coordinated responses and communication and ways to improve those.” The effort has been funded by a federal grant through the state of Wisconsin. According to Lt. Dan Ruth, the Kenosha County applied for the grant in December 2013 and
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