Listen to the Radio Traffic from the 7th Day Adventist School Shooting
I have just released a new video on the Christian Warrior Training YouTube channel. In it, you can listen to the complete, condensed radio traffic from the California Highway Patrol's response to the tragic school shooting in Oroville, California at the Feather River School of Seventh-Day Adventists. This audio begins with the initial dispatch call and continues through the resolution of the incident, including reunification efforts for the children and their parents.
This video is not just for information but as a critical training resource. I encourage you to use tactical visualization while listening. Tactical visualization involves imagining yourself in the situation, thinking through your potential actions, and assessing your preparedness. For example:
How would you react to discovering a critically injured child?
Do you have the necessary medical equipment on hand?
Are your team members ready to act under extreme stress?
These are questions worth reflecting on as you listen to the audio. Tomorrow, I will release a full debrief on this incident, breaking down the events and providing detailed lessons for church security teams. For now, I encourage you to listen and start thinking about your response strategies.
Let me know your thoughts in the comments, and stay tuned for the full debrief tomorrow. Together, we can learn from these tragic events and better prepare our teams to protect those we serve.
In His Service,
Keith Graves
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Thanks Keith for sharing the radio coms with us. What Church Safety teams need to learn from this is that comms need to be calm and concise. Identify who you are speaking to and from who messages are being directed. Also confirmation of directions/instructions, so that we all know what each other is doing.
While I was the Safety Team Director I handed radios to our team which consisted of 3 members including myself. I would do a radio check with each member. We all knew how important that was. I also would give a radio the the children's ministry, but I got resistance from them because they thought radio checks were non-sense, "nothing will happen here". The radio checks became a chore to them and they didn't give it the importance the Safety Team would have hoped.
Part of my reasoning in having members do radio checks was to get them familiar with the radios and how to talk on the radio so that in an emergency it wouldn't be so foreign to them.
Well I didn't get the support from our church leaders in many things not just this item. So I reigned from my position as Security Director.
Burt yes comms are important.