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Pennsbury School District officials announced Thursday night that police and emergency responders will hold a large active shooter drill throughout the district next month.
The drill will take place on Monday, April 17 and last for approximately five to six hours, according to a district press release.
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The drill will take place inside Charles Boehm Middle School on Big Oak Road in Lower Makefield. William Penn Middle School on Derbyshire Road in Lower Makefield and Pennsbury High School West on South Olds Boulevard in Falls Township will also be utilized in the drill, officials said.
Students are scheduled to be off the day of the drill.
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“This type of exercise, when conducted on such a large scale, helps to simulate real-life events and proves invaluable to local agencies and to the public,” said Sherwood Taylor, Pennsbury’s director of administrative services.
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School officials and the school board have worked for several months to coordinate the upcoming drill with the numerous agencies involved, Taylor said.
“The Pennsbury School Board asked for us to initiate this important drill. Follow-up discussions afterwards will help us to fine-tune our response activity and protocols,” he said.
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About 75 students, teachers and administrators from Pennsbury will be involved in the drill.
The upcoming active shooter drill will be the first large scale drill in the Pennsbury School District in recent years. School board member Jacqui Redner has pushed for a similar drill in the district for years during public meetings.
Below are a list of agencies taking part:
- Falls Township Police
- Lower Makefield Township Police
- Tullytown Borough Police
- Yardley Borough Police
- Levittown Fairless Hills Rescue Squad
- Yardley-Makefield Rescue Squad
- Yardley-Makefield Fire Company
- Fairless Hills Fire Company
- Falls Township Fire Marshal
- Bucks County District Attorney’s Office
- Bucks County 911 Dispatch Center
- Levittown Fire Company No. 1
- Falls Township Fire Company
- Tullytown Fire Company
- Aria Health’s Bucks County Campus
- St. Mary Medical Center
