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"Everything I was trained on mass casualty events says they did the wrong thing." I spoke with a seasoned emergency medical responder who was one of the first to the Stoneman shooting. He doesn't want me using his name for fear he will get fired. Here are his exact quotes.

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6:12 PM · Feb 24, 2018

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The Coral Springs fire chief said this at a press conference a few days ago: "I can tell you that we set up a triage area and we had a steady stream of victims coming out. The officers that went in from all the agencies did a fantastic job getting them to us as fast as possible."

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It’s not exactly a case where the crime scene needs to be preserved to help find the killer—they knew his identity so all emergency personnel should’ve been allowed in.

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First responders should have been let in! And sadly, we must also remember this: The #Douglass victims were not shit with hand gun. They were from an AR 15: That gun OBLITERATES ORGANS, meaning that many were doomed to death because we allow these weapons of war on our streets.

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As a flight nurse with extensive trauma training yes, you want to instinctually go in. But you cannot save obliterated organs from the ammo and weapon used. And the police protocol had to clear the area? Shooter was unknown? Whereabouts unknown? War is not clean and scripted

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I'm an avid scanner listener and, in my area, law enforcement keeps medical emergency personnel holding at a staging area until they can ensure the scene, involving weapons, is secured.

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Isn't Sheriff Israel the same man who was in charge during the 2017 Ft. Lauderdale airport shooting? His department was heavily criticized for their response to that incident as well: sun-sentinel.com/news/fort-laud

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Here is the 82-page review of the Broward County police response to the Ft. Lauderdale airport shooting: "disjointed, misinformed and conflicting" due to the lack of information"

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No One Took Charge After Fort Lauderdale Airport Shooting, Outside Review Finds

The 82-page review, prepared by a consulting firm hired by Broward County, said that the response to the shooting was "disjointed, misinformed and conflicting" due to the lack of information.