Saugus High School Shooting Santa Clarita Filming Drill & Discussion

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A live shooter drill on the campus of the school in Santa Clarita conducted just weeks before the shooting. It was the subject of the school's news program hosted by student anchors. We blurred some of the faces in the video since the students were minors and we really would like to be sensitive to this situation. If you encounter the shooter, make all attempts to put a solid object in the shooter. The factores, use natural barriers like walls, tables or anything that might obscure the perpetrator's view. Run. Your first instinct to run away from trouble is the best choice. Leave your belongings. Don't hesitate. Just run. Your safety is more important than your belongings. You can get off campus, get off campus by any means possible. Hide fences or gates that you have to. Hide. If you can, get inside a building. Everyone, make a window. Bear kids dorm. If you have no way of locking the door, bear a kid and hide yourself in case the shooter comes in looking for targets. Once inside, stay away from doors and windows. What are you doing? You idiot? Get away from the window. Fight. As a last resort, fight. Look around you and find an object that can be used as a weapon. Possible objects include fire extinguishers, scissors, shoes, backpacks, chairs. Anything that can either incapacitate or slow down the assailant. If you can, attack the shooter or shooters as a group. There is strength in numbers. There is no way to know what the people you are about to meet were feeling that day, but we can guess. Cassie Eckelman is a 17 year old senior who is on the school swim team and works on the school's yearbook. Her sister Mandy is a sophomore and she goes to the same school of course. Then there is Emily, Emily Kennazaro, who is also 15 and participates in drama at the school in Abby Kennazaro. Her sister, she is a senior and active in the choir. On this sofa where I am, you have Abby and Emily's mom, Kelly Kennazaro, and David Straddling, a teacher who was in his classroom when the bullets were flying out in the quad. David, I want to start with you because when we were talking earlier, you told me that what we saw in that video was exactly what happened on Thursday November 14th. I don't remember the video showing. I am sure I took the shooter drills real seriously, but someone posted on Facebook and I watched it and I was dumped back in on November 14th. You felt that the tears came to my eyes. The stress came to my eyes. You could feel the adrenaline flowing. It was eerily accurate. It was eerily accurate. It was eerily accurate. Everybody was out in a couple of minutes. Then I heard the shots. In the first shot, it sounded like a kid popping a chip bag. I thought it was like stopping on a chip bag. When the other shots rang out, I grabbed my stuff and my friends and we just ran out the back. The back was so crazy full of kids. I had to climb over railings and try going over fences to just run up the hill. I was in the quad when it happened. I was very close to it all. I heard all of the shots. The first one was super loud, but we thought it was like a balloon or a chip bag. We thought it was a kid popping a chip bag. I thought it was all the time. We saw people running, so all of us got scared and bolted off. Every direction was just trying to run. Let's remind everybody that the quad is where the shooting occurred and we're going to continue this conversation coming up next on Fox 11 news in death more talk with the students, a teacher and a parent who represents August strong. 45 slugs. Mod 2 grips on the base specific. Let's put one in there that has a few more rounds there. We thought it was just a kid popping a chip bag. I thought it was all like that. I used my good targets. I can't help it. There were a lot of heroes. There were a lot of heroes and one of them was your choir teacher? Yes, Ms. Holt. There we have them. She was doing well. I was just going to say at the time she was bleeding and she was bleeding. And Ms. Holt pulled everyone to fairheed the door and to make sure that no one else was able to get in. And they went inside rooms and she took her to her office and she started bandaging her off and really caring for her and being her there emotionally. Quad, that's sort of almost like a hard place to walk into the first time. Yeah, it really was. But they saw the staff made it so much easier. They had music playing and they had people at every point to be there and hug us. And I think that's really what helped me get through it because it was really emotional. The music and the hugging. So it's a time of really trying to come together. Yes, it really is. You are feeling that. Yeah. The sense of community is so strong, especially when you went to the campus and you saw everything that was being put forth for us. And like the banners that were held, it was really comforting. I bet it was. I bet it was. We'll be back after this break, but we're going to continue this conversation. Not only with the students from Saga's high school, but also with the teacher and the parent. We'll be right back. I went over to put in some late work. And just as I sat down, I heard a pop. Again, I have my own little pod area where the choir actually will come in and sing. It has great acoustics. So people think jump on the back or no carton of summit pops. So it's not that they could deal. It was then the repetitive pops after that. And, but let me take you in a different direction. Let me ask you having been one of these few schools in the United States that have had an experience like that. What do we learn from it? Where do we go forward from here? Forward from here. It can happen to you. And if you don't prepare, it'll be worse. If you don't prepare, if you don't prepare, it'll be worse. Are you getting a little more? The emotion sometimes. During the time I'm on. So I have a job to do. And so I don't have time for emotions. And you have to stuff those down because you have to make sure that your kids are safe. You have to prepare them for what's coming. Once we knew the shooter was down. Okay, at some point, they're going to come get us. Here's what you need to know. You've got to have your hands in the air. They're going to be mad and stressed. You can't do dumb things. It's the first time. I need you to get your cell phones, your IDs, and your keys because the rest can stay behind. But those things you're going to need at some point. And we had enough time that we were able to. Welcome back to Fox 11 News in depth. Saga strong. There's so much to talk about. And we're going to continue this conversation on my podcast, What the How? You can get that anywhere where you get your podcast. And for Cassie, Mandy, Emily, Abby, David, and Kelly, life will never be the change. The same. After November, the 14th, things changed. And Abby, sort of a final thought. I think it's just really important in these times like this, that we come together as a community. And we remember that love always comes, overcomes hate. And I'm very proud of our fellow centurions. How we've been handling this situation. And we have to remember that that we're strong. Nicely said, thank you very much. Thank you all. That's it for this week. See you next week, everybody. Thanks for joining us. Thank you. Thank you.