Active-shooter drill at Oviedo Mall keeps first responders frosty

OVIEDO, Fla. – At the Oviedo Mall, 60 local officers, deputies, EMS and other responders took part in a three-day course designed to help them prepare for active-shooter situations and attacks.

“We have a responsibility to go back to the drawing board and say, ‘What can we learn from this particular scenario?’” said Sheriff Dennis Lemma of Seminole County. “Of course, when you look at Parkland, what has happened here in the state of Florida, there are a lot of lessons that you can learn from these examples.”

“In this call, they’re responding to a school, a school shooting, and they’re working as a team, they’re communicating,” explaine Terry Nichols, Executive Director of the National Center for Integrated Emergency Response (NCIER)…

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