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Gun. my best friend texted me as the tragedy began. his text read, second fire drill today. i hear gunshots. we're about to die. his text did not read, i hear a mental illness we're about to die. i hear a sick minded person, we're about to die. the text read, i hear gunshots and we're about to die. can you relate to this, joey? >> yes, i mean, i walked out of my classroom when the fire alarm went off. and we just thought it was another fire drill, you know. we didn't think anything of it. we have fire drills all the time. we're kind of just used to walking out, getting in our specific areas fo...

The shooter pulled the fire alarm and when he opened fire. let me ask you what happened and what you experienced on that afternoon this week. >> thank you for having me. i was in the room on the third floor in study hall. our class is pretty loud. i didn't hear any gun shots in the beginning. we had a substitute, so my teacher had no idea -- like he had no idea what he was doing. and we all went out for the fire alarm but we were really confused because we had had one second period around 9:30. no one knew what was going on. but we went along with the protocol anyway. so we started going down ...

This is an amazing school and an amazing setting. >> i talked to the football coach yesterday, and, i mean, he was heart broken. one thing he said, he used to teach in west virginia, he said in his 28 years in schools, he had never been to a school that was as well prepared, that had done as many drills for active shooters, for fire drills, for anything, and even the fire drill they had in the morning, the teachers were on point, everybody was in line. >> we -- one thing we did as the city is we made sure through the school board that this school has an armed police officer, every school in pa...

Of experiences to initiate this conversation, to take the stigma out of having the conversation about mental health. >> you know, i talked to the football coach from the school today who said, look -- he said in his 28 years of education in other schools in west virginia and here, he had never seen a school as ready, as had done as many drills, active shooter drills, fire drills, even a fire drill that morning and yet this still happened. there was an armed security guard that didn't interact. >> we have single-point entry. we have all of that. we do all of the drills as you indicated. but, ag...

Goes through suicide, a whole host of issues. we provide counsellors and support services and we engage the students in a conversation. those have been some very power of experiences to initiate this conversation, to take the stigma out of having the conversation about mental health. >> you know, i talked to the football coach from the school today who said, look -- he said in his 28 years of education in other schools in west virginia and here, he had never seen a school as ready, as had done as many drills, active shooter drills, fire drills, even a fire drill that morning and yet this still...