High school locked down in emergency drill
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DeSoto County High School receptionist Alma Cendejas calls the 911 emergency system to start off an emergency drill to practice a school lockdown in case of an attack.
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A hallway at DeSoto County High School stands clear during an emergency drill Tuesday. School Board member William Stanko remarked that only during the summer had he ever seen the school as quiet.
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DeSoto County High School Principal Shannon Fusco announcesTuesday over the PA system that the schooll drill has commenced.
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Law enforcement officers arrive at DeSoto County High School Tuesday to participate in an emergency drill in which the school was locked down.
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Arcadia Police Department officers make sure that DeSoto County High School classrooms are locked, their lights switched off and the students inside on the floor as the school and law enforcement officers ran an emergency drill Tuesday.
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Members of the Arcadia Police Department and the DeSoto County Sheriff's Office called Tuesday's emergency dril at the high school "highly successful."
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Arcadia Police Department Capt. Matt Anderson gives orders Tuesday at a Code Red Emergency drill at the high school.
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DeSoto County High School School Resource Officer Darryll Massey calls the County Sheriff's OfficeTuesday on his radio to alert them that a 911 call from the school would be for a drill.
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DeSoto County Sheriff Will Wise patrols the hallways of the high school as part of a drill Tuesday.
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Approximately 20 Arcadia Police Department officers and DeSoto County Sheriff's Office deputies participated Tuesday in an emergency drill at the DeSoto County High School.
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Two studenst who arrived late to school Tursday hurry in at the behest of Principal Shannon Fusco because an emergency drill had already started.
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Law enforcement officers arrive at DeSoto County High School Tuesday to participate in an emergency drill in which the school was locked down.
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Arcadia Police Department officers make sure that DeSoto County High School classrooms are locked, their lights switched off and the students inside on the floor as the school and law enforcement officers ran an emergency drill Tuesday.
DESOTO COUNTY — Some 20 law enforcement officers in several marked and unmarked patrol cars descended Tuesday on DeSoto County High School. But it was not for a raid, nor was it an emergency. The school, in conjunction with the Arcadia Police Department and the DeSoto County Sheriff’s Office, coordinated a Code Red Emergency drill to practice lockdown procedures in the case of an attack at the school.
The drill came about as a result of the Newtown, Conn., armed assault that claimed the lives of 20 children and six adults in December at the Sandy Hook Elementary School.
