Holyoke Police Chief Doug Bergstrom, pictured at right, explains a training scenario to a team of responders during an active shooter exercise at Holyoke High School last Sunday, June 23. Responders are pictured from left, Jordan Fleharty, Andrew Johnson and Carolyn Becker. The group breached the school auditorium, where Bergstrom simulated a pipe bomb explosion by firing a blank round from a shotgun, and medics treated actors presenting with various injuries. — The Holyoke Enterprise | Johnson Publications
Medics, law enforcement train in active shooter response
As a fog machine pumped smoke into the air, roughly a dozen actors huddled under seats, clutched at imaginary injuries and played dead in the aisles of the Holyoke JR/SR High School auditorium.
