Carson City public safety agencies to stage second emergency response exercise Sunday
The second and final “active assailant response” exercise this year will be staged Sunday at the Carson City Courthouse. The training event will focus on response to an active assailant incident using a unified approach, said Stacey Belt, deputy emergency manager for Carson City. The first exercise was Nov. 15.
Exercises like this are crucial features of public safety where we combine emergency responders and persons on scene as it happens," said Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong. "As we know with what has happened before with IHOP, scenarios can be unpredictable and we have to be able to adjust under any circumstance."
The training is intended to integrate personnel from various agencies in Carson City and neighboring jurisdictions to an actual active assailant or other critical incident in order to be better prepared. The exercise also gave courthouse staff measure to test their training and safety procedures.
Carson TV News was on hand during the first exercise. See the video report below.
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