But he knew he was in the bathroom and he was able to get out of the building, again, because these exit doors were working well. I cant tell you how thankful i am just to do that one task Homeland Security told us to do. Because in the past you couldnt push through the exit doors . They werent easily opened. They had safeties on them so they couldnt open either way. But now he was able to get out. I mean, he could be alive because of this. Where were you when you found out this had occurred . I was heading up to the service. Im there every i was there last night for service. I go up there around 10 00 and in the morning and one of the Vice President s that i work with on facilities now that i stepped down, he called. He worked for city emergency management. And he said he just got word theres an active shooter at
tree of life. Go up there and see if this is true. I tried to get up. I only live a block away from the synagogue. I tried to get up shady avenue and was police cars everywhe
you don t know what their level of training is. here we have three officers who triy eied to deal with this individual and got injured. you don t know what level of training they have. you don t know how good they are. you don t know if they can run from i ve seen some security people in some places where i don t know if they can run from one corner of the block to another. so there s also that. security, law enforcement, they re not the same thing. just because you put somebody there who s got, you know, a uniform on doesn t mean they re going to be able to deal with the situation. right. i stink instincts are different. right, in orlando, there was a police officer out there who was overpowered by the shooter who was using high-powered weapons. that could be what happened here. there are some indications he was using high-powered weapon here. even if there was an armed guard there, what is one armed guard