August 11, 2022 – The Mammoth Lakes Police Department, in partnership with the Inland Training Division of the California Highway Patrol, conducted a multi-agency Active Shooter/Tactical Casualty Care training exercise on August 2-3, 2022, at Mammoth Elementary School.
This exercise focused on emergency response to an active shooter incident on campus and how to best collaborate and respond to this scenario with local and state emergency responders. A simulation of the law enforcement response to an active shooter helps to assure a coordinated, timely and effective response.
This training is presented to participants as “realistic as possible” to ensure that first responders have the same knowledge and tactics of how to handle an active shooter. This included simulated gunfire, full classrooms and volunteers running through the hallways. After the shooter was secured by law enforcement in each scenario, role players were evacuated out of the school and attended to by the medical triage unit. Patients were even transported, by ambulance, to Mammoth Hospital who then conducted an exercise on receiving multiple patients.
Training with other agencies in this life-like scenario offers invaluable experience and lasting partnerships. Agencies who participated in the exercise included the California Highway Patrol, Mono County Sheriff’s Office, Mono County District Attorney, Mammoth Lakes Fire Department, Long Valley Fire Department, Inyo County Probation, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, USFS Inyo National Forest Law Enforcement, Mono County Paramedics, Mammoth Hospital, MLPD/MSCO Explorers, Mammoth Unified School District Staff and many volunteer community members.
A huge thank you to all involved for making this training such a success.
If you would like to learn more about how to respond if you find yourself in an active shooter situation, please visit: www.alicetraining.com.
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Does “realistic as possible” mean a few hundred cops will just chill outside for the first hour of the exercise?
Dan
I don’t think we should gauge ALL Law Enforcement Officers and agencies with that incompetent one in Ulvalde,Texas..
After all,it was in the red State of Texas…
The State with all the big -talking and how tough they are that live there..( “don’t mess with Texas ” sort of thing we all hear ) ,but when it comes down to it….duck and run.
I thought law enforcement wanted to be gauged together? Isn’t that what the “thin blue line” family is all about?
It’s amazing how police officers call eachother “brothers and sisters”, but the moment one of them does something bad – it’s “don’t gauge them” all together.
Low
Before I moved to the Owens Valley,I knew of a lot of bad cops…both when I lived in the A.V. and especially when I lived in Oregon.
With my “life-style ” back then,it’s a wonder I never got my butt kicked by one of them on numerous late night-early morning traffic stops,and especially a wonder that they didn’t find “things ” in my truck and my ending up in jail on arrest and probably lots of time in prison on convictions of things they didn’t find or things I did back then.
…A miracle I’ve never spent a day or night in jail in my entire life from days back then.
Where I lived,an arrest usually meant a violent arrest,sometimes worse.
And the reason for that,where I lived Law Enforcement had to deal with a lot of daily B.S.,which made some of them really mean.
Here in the Owens Valley,only one bad experience from a CHP Officer outside of Independence, the Officer accusing me ,at first of smelling marijuana in my truck,which wasn’t true…and then accused of being high on meth,which I wasn’t.
My few other experiences in the Sierra,they’ve all been good and fair,and even a few friendships made along the way.
I highly doubt our LE Officers in the OV and Mono County think and feel the Ulvalde police force did a very good job… more like a black eye they gave to them and other officers of the law across the Nation.