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I had to work at the game that day. i heard the call. we responded there. i met the supervisor on scene. we formed up a group. a rescue task force. a group of police and paramedics and moved. >> we understand he tried to join in. >> yeah. i didnt know he lived here. he wanted to come with us but he didnt have any ballistic protection. >> yeah. you were willing to go in without protection i work very comfortable with each other. our safety is first. the safety of our team members so i was able to...

Welcome back. im brooke baldwin. youre watching special coverage, day two, mexico beach in florida. youre seeing me straight on. we also have a drone thats able to give you an enormous perspective of what mexico beach really looks like from the air and how much of it has been taken out. as we fly this drone overhead, you can get a better scope of just the devastation. i was talking to miami fire and rescue task force 2, and they were giving me a little more on numbers yesterday. were talking to ...

In the sheriffs office so far? and in what way? >> thats what i was trying to say before about the bigger problem here at the sheriffs office. nobody has been held accountable. you have the district captain of parkland, jan jordan, who took 11 minutes to get to that scene and had no ability to take a command presence at that crime scene and actually get resources inside that were needed. fire chief mcdally out of col springs went on the record and said that six times he asked captain jordan for ...

Embracing gun control on a national level when they are going to be states and districts that are not going to go for it. >> retaken the house will be easy for democrats either. the latest fox news poll found a tightening race in candidate preferences with 46% saying they backed the democratic candidate in their district compared to 41 for the republican. thats a very different picture from october when democrats were up by 15. bret. >> bret: garrett, thank you. keeping first responder safe duri...

>> reporter: good morning. this is such important work. both the department of homeland security and fema have issued guidelines for how active shooter incidents should go, but theres not a civil mandate on how law enforcement and emts should work together, which is why running these drills is critical. trying to save lives while protecting your own. this is rescue task force training, as close to a real life active shooter incident as it gets. >> shooter down! shooter down! >> reporter: this dr...

>> in the weeks after the shooting, police departments across the country have stepped up their training. first responders on how to bring medical care to those who need it most and first in an emergency. fox news correspondent laura ingle has more. reporter: trying to save lives while protecting your road. this is rescue task force training come as close to real life active shooter and said that as they get. this drill being run by the national center for security and preparedness is using loca...

We deployed a rescue task force on a significant event. we will talk about it in a little bit, but it has been worked on for many, many years. at the event, there was a stand by crew of approximately 16 ems and paramedic personnel. they performed wonderfully under fire. literally under fire. taking care of patients that were right there in front of them in a very bad situation. my hats off to that stand by ems crew taking care of people there. there were numerous, numerous people from around the...

Night? speak of that is very handy. its very important. thats exactly what we did. we deployed 16 task forces and that the rescue task force where we take for firefighters and 34 police officers and put them into a group and we send that out. the task forces that night were headed for the venue, we had 60 calls holding inside of hotels or people were huddled up, at the various hotels calling 911 saying im shot, im injured. our dispatchers do not talk about them in a minute, they decided to their...

Right out of the chute or right out of the start because things were going on because we didnt know where the gunfire was, we didnt know where it was safe to commit our people at that time. some of our policies and procedures are try to make our people as safe as possible, we know theyre going into a dangerous situation. thats why we do it in a format called rescue task force with police departments, four of our personnel, three to four police officers going into harms way something even ten yea...

>> when youre part of the first responder entry team, sergeant, in a situation like the this, are you first looking to final the shooter? trying to get to the victims? or are you doing all of that simultaneously? >> there is a lot of moving parts taking place. the first officers on scene are headed to the gunman to stop the threat. right on the heels of that we have the rescue task force philosophy that integrates the fire department and law enforcement who enter into start to attend to the vict...