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Tuesday, February 27, 2018

More News And Less Understanding Of What Occured In Florida School Shooting

Broward Sheriff responds to stunning report that EMT was told to wait outside shooting

Feb 27, 2018 12:02 am

The Broward County Sheriff's office issued a statement on the report that EMS weren't allowed to enter into the Parkland High School when they arrived in response to the school shooting that took 17 lives. (Image Source: YouTube screenshot)

Fox News says numerous sources have confirmed to them that EMT services asked for permission to attend to victims in the Parkland school shooting but were denied by law enforcement.

Here’s the report from Fox News:

One Florida official told Fox News that it was specifically the embattled Broward County Sheriff’s office that told the Emergency Medical Service they could not enter the school.

“What’s going to come out is, in the communications on several circumstances, there was the request to enter,” the official said, “the request was denied from Broward County.”

“When you have a police agency saying we don’t want you going in, that’s a problem,” said a different Florida official. “The training since Columbine has been [that] first responders, police go in immediately with paramedics.”

Broward County responds

“There are multiple investigations being conducted in addition to the Stoneman Douglas shooting,” the Broward County Sheriff’s office said in a statement. “Investigators will not be rushed or asked to jump to conclusions.”

“Their investigations are thorough and methodical as they take and compare witness statements, review dozens of incident reports, transcribe and analysis numerous radio transmissions, listen to more than 80 911 calls,” they added.

“Decisions cannot be made in a vacuum,” said Mike Moser, the Fire Administration Division Chief of the Coral Springs-Parkland Fire Department. “All of the variables must be taken into consideration before a rescue task force can be enabled.”

“It is possible that those that are upset about not being allowed inside,” he added, “simply do not have all the information that our law enforcement partners had in making their decision.”

Beleaguered Broward

Broward County Sheriff Israel has been under intense critique for the actionsundertaken during the Florida shooting. Critics also point to numerous missed warning signs to Broward police that could have led to the shooting being prevented.

Sunday, February 25, 2018

An Example Of Government Malfeasance Gets Even Worse

EMS first responder shares harrowing account of how botched Florida shooting response was

6 hours

A EMT who was one of the first to arrive at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school on the day of the shooting shared his account with a local reporter. The first responder believes the response was completely botched. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

An anonymous first responder spoke to a WSVN-TV reporter about what he saw when he arrived to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14 — the day that 17 innocent people were murdered by a lone gunman.

The EMT, who was too scared to give his name, shared a jaw-dropping account thatprovides context to reports that have already established the botched response to the active shooter situation.

What did he say?

According to the first responder, everything about the response was completely botched.

“Everything I was trained on mass casualty events says they did the wrong thing,” he explained. “You don’t wait for the scene to be cleared. You go in immediately armed. Retrieve the victims. You can’t leave the victims laying there.”

“We were asking to go in. Asking the scene commander to go in. Why are we all standing around? Why are we not having patients to treat? Why are we not going into the building and retrieving these kids? The response every time was law enforcement did not clear the scene and would not allow medical personnel to go in,” he added.

The EMS worker believes that if he and other medical responders were allowed to enter the building as soon as they arrived, they could have saved more lives. He explained he was willing to risk his life to save the lives of others and was very frustrated over the situation.

The EMS worker stressed that he believes law enforcement made the decision they thought was best at the time, but emphasized that he believes it was the wrong one.

“They should have been more aggressive about getting the victims out,” he said.

What does law enforcement say?

With allegations that the Broward County sheriff’s department botched the response to the shooting — including its deputy stationed at the school, in addition to three other sheriff deputies, not engaging the shooter and only standing outside behind cover — law enforcement is in full damage-control mode.

The Broward County sheriff’s office released a statement on Saturday in an attempt to dispel some stories surrounding their department’s response to the shooting. The department also urged they haven’t confirmed many of the stories being widely reported.

“It is more important for us to wait and let investigators get it right, even if some media outlets are getting it wrong,” the department claimed.

Still, it’s hard to ignore powerful statements from students who witnessed the deputies doing nothing.