- November 16, 2024
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About 15 members of the Flagler County Sheriff's Office, including command staff, participated in the drill. Deputies were the first to arrive "on scene" in the drill as simulated calls came in to dispatch about a shooter at the high school.
Indian Trails School Resource Deputy Sam Cooper runs toward the FPC entrance in an emergency drill simulating an active shooter scenario.
A deputy stands in the lobby of FPC during a drill, preparing to track down an "active shooter" in a simulated scenario during the June 11 training exercise.
Deputies turned in their service pistols for the drill, and were given blue mock Glock handguns. The other firearms have yellow plastic tabs through them, showing that they cannot be loaded.
About 100 student volunteers took part in the drill. Some, like this student, posed as injured victims on the school campus. Others, at the Sheriff's Office dispatch center, peppered dispatchers with mock emergency calls about the simulated shooting.
Emergency responders triaged student volunteers during the training drill according to the severity of their mock injuries, using color-coded tarps.
Student Autumn Howell, 15, was one of the students who posed — with the help of some makeup artists, who created a grisly mock neck injury — as the victim of an active shooter during an emergency training exercise at FPC June 11.
Flagler County Fire Chief Don Petito (left), Flagler County Sheriff James L. Manfre (right) and other local officials addressed members of the local press after the exercise.
