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Armed Intruder Response Exercise

Squirrels School Bus StopSedona AZ (August 15, 2014)On Saturday, August 9, 2014, Coconino County Arizona Sheriff’s Deputies, Chevelon Butte Elementary School District personnel and school bus drivers, United States Forest Service Law Enforcement Officers, Blue Ridge Fire District personnel, and Coconino County Sheriff’s Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) members participated in a training scenario that simulated an armed intruder (also known as Active Shooter training) on a school bus with student passengers. 

The goal of the exercise was to instill in school bus drivers and involved law enforcement officers the knowledge, skills, abilities, and mindset necessary to successfully respond to an active threat event. The training was designed to focus on the roles, responsibilities and inter-agency coordination of responding officers and school bus drivers.

Armed intruder response team exercise

Armed intruder response team exercise

Active Shooter situations are unpredictable and evolve quickly. Typically, the immediate deployment of law enforcement is required to stop the shooting and mitigate harm to the victims. Because active shooter situations often last 10 to 15 minutes, school staff members must be prepared both mentally and physically to deal with an active shooter situation while law enforcement responds to the scene.

Linda Blosser, President of the Governing Board for the Chevelon Butte Elementary School District, requested that the training be provided to district school bus drivers and was instrumental in the planning, organization and implementation of the exercise.

Following the training, Blosser said, ‘Our training event was a great success. As a small rural school district it gave us a chance to identify areas we needed to review and follow up with additional in house training. Chevelon Butte Elementary School District is being proactive, making sure our employees have received the training they need if an emergency were to happen on one of our school buses full of students. Safety is our #1 priority; our goal is to make sure every student and bus driver go home at the end of the day. The cooperation we received from the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office has been great. They shared their time and expertise with us, and may I say it was an eye opener. When I asked, ‘what do we do if an emergency happens on one of our buses?’ a small army of several law enforcement agencies, being led by the CCSO, drove out and ‘role played’ with us for a day.”

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4 Comments

  1. This ought to be scaring the crap out of you folks. The silence is deafening. Wait until those guns are pointed at you and your kids because some moron decides to make his day. What’s happening here is the result of gangs and drugs. Get your heads out of the sand.

  2. Parents with their “Head-in-sand”,

    If you monitor all media sources in the Verde Valley, it is very clear that too many people have the head-in-the-sand.

    Recently there have been 5 attempted home invasions in the Cornville Verde Sante Fe community and they are now organizing a neighborhood watch.

    This past week a Camp Verde student was arrested for drug possession and there was a link to a story about “several” Mingus Union High School drug related incidents.

    I will always contend that “many”, not all negative social issues start in the home and with the parents.

    “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree”.

    As long as there are drug users there will be drug suppliers …… so who’s really responsible for our drug related issues?

    I put the responsibility for where our nation is directly on the parents!

    If you can’t raise them don’t have them and if you have them be a “role model”!

    Gary Chamberlain FVUSA
    “America the Beautiful & BagReadyJobs”
    Empowering our nation’s youth
    FolksvilleUSA@gmail.com

  3. Heroin – Story from Camp Verde Bugle

    http://www.campverdebugleonline.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=43470&SectionID=1&SubSectionID=991&S=1

    Time to hold parents responsible for their children’s actions.

    Gary Chamberlain FVUSA
    “America the Beautiful & BagReadyJobs”
    Empowering our nation’s youth
    FolksvilleUSA@gmail.com

  4. Yeah, those cops don’t look like thugs at all.

    When did it become OK to turn our sleepy tourist police force into paramilitary troops fighting terrorist in the middle east? Are they planning something? Are we at war.

    Y’all need to look at the over-prescribed SSRI drugs, which causes patients to act on violent thoughts of aggression or suicide. There is one thing that ALL mass shooters of late have in common, and it’s not guns. It’s SSRI drugs.

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