Police, Fire Train in Mass Shooter Tactics at Patriot Center
Fairfax City, County departments learn skills they can use in the event of widespread shooting.
How would local law enforcement handle a mass shooting spree at George Mason University? A team of City of Fairfax firefighters, City of Fairfax police, Fairfax County police and Sheriff's Department deputies practiced that scenario Saturday, learning techniques that could help them handle an active shooter on Mason's campus or elsewhere in the region. About 15 volunteers drew placards describing their injuries. Acting as victims, they lay throughout the Patriot Center as an officer acting as the shooter ran about the concession loop, shooting blanks and providing a target for police to overcome and arrest. Fairfax firefighters donned ballistic vests and helmets before joining the police in their search of the area, stopping to assess and …
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