First responders hold active shooter training exercise at GRCC
April 30, 2024 FOX 17
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Tuesday’s emergency scene on Godfrey Avenue was not real, but it was important to help prepare for a real emergency.
“The purpose of [Tuesday’s] active shooter exercise is to simulate and prepare for [a] potential real-life situation. It’s not conducted to incite fear, but to enhance preparedness and to help understand how to respond as effectively as possible in a real-life situation,” Grand Rapids Community College Police Chief Rebecca Whitman said.
Grand Rapids first responders hold active shooter drill at GRCC
April 30, 2024 News Channel 3/ WWMT
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Several first responders were at Grand Rapids Community College as part of a training exercise on Tuesday morning, simulating an active shooter.
Those departments include Grand Rapids Police Department, GRCC Campus Police, Fire, and EMS. The goal of the training exercise is to prepare the departments if they have to respond to an actual situation.
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