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Blog post:
Active Shooter Crisis Situation: Run - Hide - Fight
Date:
this blog came out some time before year 2017. A facebook blog app
ceased to function, and MEDIC's back-up captured the content but not the date of
writing.
Active Shooter Training
MEDIC Instructor Matthew Rosefsky attended an excellent training session on how
to be prepared for, and what to do in case of an active shooter event -- brought
to the community by the
Community
Emergency Response Team of Charlottesville-UVA-Albemarle, in early 2016.
The presentation included
playing the video on this FBI web page.
(If the link no longer works, search on FBI's web page "run hide fight" or
"Responding to an Active Shooter Crisis Situation")
Some key, relevant take-aways from the lecture portion of the training (in
addition to and/or emphasizing what's in the video) were:
[written for people who run an office]:
Plan A: RUN:
> Have everyone pre-think about the places they commonly spend time (e.g. front
desk, break room, etc.) and plan out now two escape routes from each of those
areas to get outside and far away from the building.
> Plan that as folks run away from the building, run much further away than your
fire evacuation outside gathering point.
Plan B: HIDE:
> Have everyone pre-think about places they would hide if they cannot run;
choose hiding spots which are behind something that's relatively bulletproof,
and which has an escape route -- don't trap oneself in a little hiding spot
(such as a closet) that has no back way out.
> If hiding in a room, lock the door (shooters usually won't waste time trying
to knock down a door) and blockade it from the inside.
> Silence cellphones -- don't use vibrate mode either.
Plan C: FIGHT:
> Improvise heavy and/or sharp items to fight with, and *commit* to fighting
hard.
Do NOT just lay down and play dead. Active shooters have in real life walked by
people like that on the floor and shot them anyways, to make sure they were
dead.
Consider having a rehearsal, like a fire drill.
PREVENT: 93% of attackers caused people who knew them, to be
concerned about them, before the day of shooting. Make it clear to all
employees that they are to tell you or their supervisors if they are worried
about someone, and they will not be judged if it seems to be profiling (e.g.
they won't get in trouble / they'll be protected if they "see something, say
something" on someone of ethnicity or religion who our media has stereotyped to
be a terrorist).
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