Emergency Information - Active Shooter Situation

How to respond to an active shooter situation

Run

• Have a primary and a secondary escape route and plan in mind.
• Leave your belongings behind.
• Evacuate the area, even if others don’t agree to follow.
• Help others escape if you can do so safely.
• Don’t attempt to move the wounded.
• Prevent others from entering the area.
• Keep your hands visible.
• Call for help: BUPD — 570-389-2211 or 911

Hide

• Hide in an area out of the active shooter’s view.
• Try to pick an area that gives you other options of escape, such as a window or second door.
• Lock the door or block entry to your hiding place.
• Silence your cell phone (including vibrate mode) and remain quiet.

Fight

• Fight as a last resort, and only when your life is in imminent danger.
• Attempt to incapacitate the shooter
• Act with as much physical aggression as possible.
• Improvise weapons, or throw items at the active shooter.
• If you are able to remove the weapon, secure it and separate yourself from it.
• Commit to your actions — your life depends on it.

This video was funded by the Department of Homeland Security. It depicts a dramatization of an active shooter scenario at the workplace as experts offer informative commentary in reference to survival techniques. This six-minute training video was produced with a federal grant by the city of Houston, which received $3.6 million in total funding to research and produce a series of training videos.