CBS4 - IOWA
It was organized chaos at Moline High School Thursday, when area hospitals, EMS and police trained for a school shooting.
For the area emergency workers, the training gave an inside look of what a school shooting might be like. There were more than 60 volunteers acting as panicked parents or as injured students.Fifteen-year-old Lindsey Gidel participated as an injured student. She was given the role of someone knocked unconscious in the chaos.
"I was really scared; I almost started crying because the thought it could actually happen," Gidel said.
"I was really scared; I almost started crying because the thought it could actually happen," Gidel said.
Unfortunately shootings do happen, and that's the main reason for the training."School shootings and workplace violence has been occurring everywhere across the country," explains Rock Island County Sergeant Mitch Lee, "That's why we continue to train."Organizers say part of the goal is also to get emergency crews working together. Students were even rushed to local hospitals like they would be in a real situation.
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