The Fond du Lac Fire Chief says he believes local law enforcement and first responders are prepared for dangerous situations, like incidents that occurred last week at two Wisconsin high schools. Last week school resource officers at high schools in Waukesha and Oshkosh shot and injured armed students. No other students were injured in either incident. Fond du Lac Fire Chief Pete O’Leary says the Fire Department has worked closely with police in developing a Rescue Task Force in the event of an active shooter situation. Instead of staging outside, paramedics have been trained to go inside a school building with police officers to treat shooting victims. “The purpose is if we know we can get into an area the police have secured for us, normally we wouldn’t have gone into, but now we can go to because of this specialized training, we can get to somebody who has been wounded well before we would have been able to get to them before,” O’Leary told WFDL news. O’Leary says he believes school staff, police and rescue personnel are trained for an event they hope will never happen.
