Ready for anything
Will Keller, Eli Lopez, and Mike Groves of the Shoshone County Sheriff's Office act as law enforcement and actors in a practice scenario at Wallace High School Thursday morning.
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Mike Groves approaches a vehicle driven by Eli Lopez with a safety weapon drawn. One of the training scenarios that law enforcement officers practiced was a traffic stop that took a dangerous turn. Both officers work for the Shoshone County Sheriff's Office, but today involved roleplaying to safely work through different emergency scenarios they might encounter.
Kadie Corwin, Victor Malsom, and Ashley Christmann listen as Tyler Rotchford of Shoshone Fire District No. 2 details best practices in the application of a tourniquet for a patient with bodily trauma.
Scott Dietrich and Seth Green listen as Dameon Groves of Kellogg Police addresses assembled law enforcement officers and firefighter/EMS staff at Wallace High School Thursday morning. The briefing detailed some helpful ways for first responders to organize in the event of active shooter scenarios.
WALLACE — A routine traffic stop turned into a shootout Thursday morning in Wallace. Luckily, it was only a training scenario and law enforcement were both the role players and officers testing their responses in the field.
In the high school cafeteria, law enforcement traded their duty firearms for orange safety firearms and firefighters were issued blue training tourniquets throughout.
Capt. Eli Lopez donned civilian clothes to take other law enforcement officers through what to do if a traffic stop turned dangerous. After the simulated shootout, colleagues Mike Groves and Will Keller explained reasoning and strategy to best handle the situation.
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