Local law enforcement role-plays the unimaginable

 

Brian O'Connor

Wrangell Fire Department administrator Dorianne Curley applies a realistic knife wound to the face of Molly Prysunka. Prysunka and Curley were participating in a mass casualty drill at the Nolan Center Wednesday night. Unlike past mass casualty drills, this one recreated a mass shooting at the movie theater.

It didn't matter what Ben Florschutz might have wanted. He wasn't going to get a sucking chest wound.

"No chest wounds tonight!" said Fire Department administrator Dorianne Curley, putting the kibosh on Florschutz's plans.

The wounds in this case were thankfully all simulated, though you wouldn't know it with a casual glance at Wrangell High senior Hannah Armstrong's left arm, which dribbled fake blood from a fake gunshot wound as she cradled it in the auditorium of the Nolan Center Thursday night. Armstrong and Florschutz were two of about ten volunteers from the local high school – as w...



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