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Pinellas County Sheriff's Office holds mass shooting exercise, testing response to worst-case
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It’s as bad of a scenario as you could imagine. A disgruntled ex-employee fires shots at his old workplace and with a rifle in hand makes his way across the street to his old high school, right before school is set to get out.
On Thursday afternoon, fortunately, those details were only the background of an extensive drill for the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office and first responders from across the county, to see how they’d respond to the worst-case scenario playing out nearby.
The gunshots that rang out at Seminole High School were sound effects, the blood was fake, the wounds were just makeup, and the casualties were actors – many of them students themselves. But the training it provided was as real “as you can possibly make it,” Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said.
For more: https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/pinellas-county-mass-shooting-exercise/67-080fede1-cdaa-42c7-9f7c-93a23c06d930
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