The three hour meeting at the Lynden Police Department focused on how schools would coordinate and implement their all-hazard emergency plans with first responders.
Emergency Management Division Deputy Director, Kent Catlin says he is impressed by the rare, high level of collaboration and cooperation between educators, law enforcement and first responders in Whatcom County.
The exercise’s proposed scenario was a boiler explosion, which is one of the most common problems that arise in schools.
The collaboration has been six months in the making and was scheduled long before the Sandy Hook Elementary Shootings in Connecticut.
