Last week, multiple Carson City departments gathered at Fuji Park for a mock active-shooter exercise and emergency management training designed to test and improve their coordination during a large-scale incident.

According to Texas A&M Engineering, who manages the course, the training provides framework to improve incident management and integration of law enforcement, fire and EMS, public safety communications, public information officers, and emergency management responders during active shooter event response, improving time to threat neutralization, medical intervention, and survivability of victims.

The multi-day event included progressively challenging, full-length active shooter event exercises which also included a 3D virtual reality simulator.

In addition, staff participated in Complex Coordinated Attacks (CCA) which included “the complexities of improvised explosive devices; an attacker who becomes static, barricades, or takes hostages; and a multi-modal CCA.”

Kelsey is a fourth-generation Nevadan, investigative journalist and college professor working in the Sierras. She is an advocate of high desert agriculture, rescue dogs, and analog education.