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"I don't think this one's going to fade": Active Shooter training timed just right - or wrong

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson

Published February 27, 2018 at 11:21 AM CST

Two days after UMD announced another pair of Active Shooter Event training sessions for students, faculty and staff, 17 people were killed and 14 more wounded in a deadly mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

The UMD training sessions, held less than a week later, drew big crowds, but Lt. Tim Legarde of the UMD Police Department says the aftermath of this incident "feels different."

More information about UMD's Active Shooter/Violent Event procedures is here.

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Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.

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