By Fernando Romero.
Teachers and administration, including principal Emme Siburt, attended three training sessions on Oct. 6 about what to do during catastrophic emergencies, including an active shooter crisis.
“Some of them talked about reunification,” Siburt said. “So if we did, I don’t even like to talk about it. But if something were to occur, how we would get students out and the place that we would take them.”
Abilene firefighters hosted an important training over how to stop bleeding depending on the wound location on the body.
“They taught them how to put on tourniquets,” Siburt said. “They taught them about different types of wounds and how you would stop the bleeding on those different types of wounds.”
In addition to providing additional staff training, leadership is also working to make the campus more physically secure.
“So some of our fences, we’re going to look at making them a little bit more difficult to get over,“ Siburt said. “The things that we’re trying to do. I think anytime we can try to make school more secure, it’s something that we always should do.”
The fences were an area identified as problematic by inspectors.
“Our fences were out of compliance because of their height with the new safety restrictions from the state,” assistant principal Zach Sneed said. “The fence was built before the safety restrictions were in place.”
The campus is also equipped with emergency medical kits.
“There are four kits throughout all buildings on the campus,” Sneed said. “Two in the main building on the first floor, one in the new vocational building and one in the auditorium building.”
