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Our Hutto Police Department, Hutto ISD, Hutto Fire and Rescue, Williamson County have come
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together to do a preparedness drill for an event that may or may not happen at our schools.
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We're trying to prepare first responders, staff and administrators on what our first steps are given a situation like this.
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How did you find out about this drill?
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I'm a resident of Hutto and we have a citizen police academy.
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So who are you guys?
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This is Williamson County EMS, or the tactical medic team.
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And by tactical you mean what?
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Do you guys go in with the police?
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Do you have firearms?
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No, we do not have firearms.
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We're unarmed.
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We have received tactical training, SWAT school and tactical medic school, which has allowed for us to go inside of structures with the SWAT team.
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How long have you been working with the tactical team?
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Four years.
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Four years?
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Yes, sir.
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How many of these drills have you done?
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This is the first of its kind in the county.
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And you said you've been working about four years.
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Why now for this type of drill?
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I'm guessing it's just what's been happening a lot lately around the country.
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I notice different teams are going in at different times.
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Is it the set drill every time or does everything change?
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It changes each time.
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For those of us that are the actual responders, we don't know what's going to be in the school when we go in.
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We've heard that the Department of Homeland Security is doing drills in Central Texas.
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Does this have anything to do with that?
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This is a local drill that we've put together with just our regional area.
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However, I think a representative from Homeland Security came to oversee what we were doing.
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Not oversee, they don't have anything to do with it.
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Yeah, this came second.
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There have been incidents all across the country and one of the things we want to do is prepare
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should something like that come to HUD.
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Is it true that the Department of Homeland Security was here to observe the event?
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No, sir.
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That's not true?
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No, sir.
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Not that I saw.
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They were never here.
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Is it true that the Department of Homeland Security was here to observe this event this morning?
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To my knowledge, no, sir.
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It's important to note that while working on this report, we received an email from the representative we spoke to earlier.
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She told us that she misunderstood us when we said DHS to the Department of Homeland Security and thought we were speaking about another entity.
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To clarify, she is saying that DHS to the Department of Homeland Security was not in attendance.
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I'm Ja'Kari Jackson for the InfoWars Nightly News.
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