*****PRESS RELEASE*****
CITY OF BRENTWOOD
FIRE AND RESCUE DEPARTMENT
POLICE DEPARTMENT
From: Fire Chief Brian Goss, Assistant Police Chief Tommy Walsh
Date: June 27, 2013
Subject: Press Release: Active Shooter Full Scale Exercise
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FULL SCALE ACTIVE SHOOTER EXERCISE TO BE HELD
AT RAVENWOOD HIGH SCHOOL
Brentwood – The Brentwood Fire &
Rescue Department and Brentwood Police Department in cooperation with the
Williamson County Emergency Management Agency and Williamson Medical Center Emergency
Medical Services (WEMS) will facilitate a full-scale active shooter exercise at
Ravenwood High School on Tuesday July 2nd, 2013.
Captain Russ Peterson, Emergency
Management Coordinator for the City of Brentwood, states “The purpose of this
exercise is to test and evaluate the operational capabilities of cooperating
agencies to manage an active shooter incident.
We will be assessing performance in several areas including unified
command, interoperable communications, threat mitigation, and the management of
mass casualties.”
Registration for participants will begin
at 7:30 a.m. followed by a training and briefing session. The full scale exercise will commence at 1:30
p.m. and conclude with a post-incident review at approximately 3:30 p.m.
The exercise will initiate on the
Ravenwood campus and extend off-site as all segments of incident response are
assessed. The incident will begin with
the initial 911 call and expand to include the coordination of responders,
mitigation of the threat, treatment and transport of patients, and preparation
and triage in the emergency room at Williamson Medical Center.
Over one hundred participants are
expected to take part including volunteers from Hands On Nashville who will act
as school students and staff members.
Representatives from the following participating and/or observing
agencies will be on site:
·
Federal
Bureau of Investigation
·
Franklin
Fire Department
·
Franklin
Police Department
·
Regional Medical Coordination Center
(off-site)
·
Tennessee
Bomb and Arson
·
Williamson
County Sheriff’s Department
·
US
Secret Service
·
Vanderbilt
LifeFlight
·
Williamson
EMS
·
Williamson
Medical Center – ER (off-site)
The Exercise Director is Lieutenant Alan
Hardcastle of the Brentwood Police Department.
There will be a media coordinating/staging area provided with an
opportunity to view and photograph or videotape limited segments of the
exercise. Brentwood Fire Chief Brian
Goss and Brentwood Assistant Police Chief Tommy Walsh will act as joint Public
Information Officers and be the point of contact for the media regarding this
event.