ELIOT (NEWS CENTER Maine) -- The Eliot Police Department along with police, fire, and EMS agencies from surrounding towns held an active shooter training session at Marshwood Middle School in Eliot Tuesday morning.
Eliot Police Chief Elliott Moya says this particular training session is an annual requirement for local law enforcement and was already scheduled before Wednesday's deadly school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where 17 students were killed. While Chief Moya doesn't believe the most recent mass shooting adds more pressure to the training session, he hopes it does add a realness to the event.
Tuesday's active shooter training was the first session in more than a decade held at an actual school and not at a mock training site, according to Chief Moya. The training scenarios included identifying the threat of a shooter, hostage situation response, and response to injured individuals while still in a hostile environment.
Moya wants this training session to prepare local first responders for a situation he hopes will never happen.