Tosa School District has trained for the day, with police and fire departments, when it might have to deal with crisis – and has dealt with it before.
The Wauwatosa School District, no stranger to tragedy, has quietly taken steps to prevent or deal as swiftly and effectively as possible with the kind of threat that ended in horror Friday morning at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, CT, with 27 dead, most of them young children. "We have a crisis response plan in place," said Dan Chanen, human resources and communications director for the district. "We all have different response roles should anything like this happen. "Last spring, we conducted a multi-agency drill, with the police and fire departments, to react to just this sort of tragedy." The police and fire departments also regularly conduct their own departmental and joint trainings for "active shooter" and "multiple victim" …
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A town once voted the safest place to live in America experiences horrific violence in one of its elementary schools.
Local and state police in Newtown, CT, were called to an elementary schoo this morning after a gunman opened fire at the school.
Twenty seven people are dead, including 18 children, at a Connecticut elementary school after a 20-year-old man went on a shooting rampage. The shooting happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, a town of about 28,000 people an hour outside of Stamford. Newtown Police were called to the school at about 9:30 a.m. Eastern time after receiving a 911 call. They alerted Connecticut State Police and authorities began an active shooter investigation once they arrived at the school, according to Connecticut State Police spokesman Lt. Paul Vance. Authorities held a press conference at 1 p.m. and said students and staff at the school were killed and that the gunman was found dead inside the school. They did not confirm the number of …
Mark
11:41 pm on Saturday, December 15, 2012
First off I have to say it is a very sad fact the we even have to prepare for these sensless acts because of the nut cases out there. And yes Betty you are correct a buzz in system is useless with glass doors but if I am not mistaken the few tosa schools I have been in have steel doors that have to be gone through after one passes through the glass doors to gain entry to the school. Also I … more ›