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Drill prepares students to react to shooter
Teachers required to watch training video
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Members of the Gainesville Police Department check surveillance cameras at Fair Street International Baccalaureate World School as the department prepares for a code red drill. The exercise is to practice with students and faculty members on what to do in the case of a shooter at the school. From the left, the police are Chris Coy, Sarah Wilson, Mike Huckaby, Lt. Jay Parrish, and Chris Jones.
Students and teachers spent a portion of Monday morning quietly hunkered down in the far corners of their classrooms while police officers roamed the halls. Woods Mill High School, Fair Street International Baccalaureate World School and Gainesville High School prepared for a worst-case scenario with a code red drill. The drill gave students, teachers and police officers an opportunity to practice how they will safely respond if a dangerous intruder were to threaten the campus.