SCHOOL DRILL PKG

***THIS IS ONLY A SIMULATION*** ***THIS IS NOT REAL*** ***TRAINING ONLY***

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This is a story about emergency preparedness in Jenks, Oklahoma, that aired on OETA Public Television's The Oklahoma Report on May 20, 2009, as reported by Angela Rosecrans and photojournalist Edwin Wilson.

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THIS HOSTAGE SIMULATED EVENT LOOKS... AND SOUNDS... LIKE THE REAL THING. POLICE OFFICERS AND EMERGENCY RESPONDERS REACT AS IF THIS JENKS SCHOOL BUS IS BEING ABDUCTED. AND JENKS HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA STUDENTS GET INTO CHARACTER TO HELP MAKE THIS PRACTICE DRILL MORE EFFECTIVE.

Kara Erwin/ Jenks High School, Junior "Well he had blanks in his gun and so they were loud and it scared us and we have people that like, have wounds and like flesh wounds all over them (37) it looks real and it feels real and he's mean

Jake Basnett/ Jenks High School, Junior "Yeah, he got on the bus and killed a couple of guys he beat me up pretty bad.

Rachel Hester/ Jenks High School, Senior "This is the first time I did this so I didn't know to the extent like how realistic it would be I thought we were just gonna pretend the wounds but to actually have it happen I was like oh dear, it was really kind of emotional." AND OFFICIALS SAY THAT'S THE POINT OF THE EVENT. MAKING IT AS REAL AS POSSIBLE SO EMERGENCY RESPONDERS CAN PUT TO TEST WHAT THEY'VE BEEN LEARNING IN THE CLASSROOM.




JIM MCBRIDE/ Oklahoma HOMELAND SECURITY "One of the issues that we have is the protection of the school systems both k-12 and higher ed we work with them trying to make the schools safer by teaching classes on how they can do it and in some instances provide funding to make the schools safer in the state of Oklahoma." JIM MCBRIDE WITH OKLAHOMA'S HOMELAND SECURITY DEPARTMENT PARTICIPATES IN THESE EVENTS ACROSS THE STATE. HE SAYS THEY PROVIDE SCENARIOS WHERE RESPONDERS CAN PRACTICE RESCUE EFFORTS AND WORK WITH SELDOM-USED TOOLS SUCH AS THE JAWS OF LIFE. HE SAYS TODAY'S DRILL POINTED OUT SOME THINGS EMERGENCY RESPONDERS NEED TO WORK ON.

most of them responded really well identified some weaknesses with the emergency responders who came here and we'll work on those weaknesses trying to eliminate them."

Dayan Inclan/ EMSA "Anytime you do anything like this it's good practice I've already talked to field training officer and we discussed how we would have handled the situation next time or how we would do it differently." GOOD PRACTICE FOR EMERGENCY RESPONDERS AND AN EXPERIENCE THESE STUDENTS WILL NOT SOON FORGET.

"everybody got really hyped up because it was so real I think that's why it worked out so well and we actually interacted with like the cops the people with EMSA.." IN JENKS, ANGELA ROSECRANS, THE OKLAHOMA NEWS REPORT.

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