{"id":2172,"date":"2010-09-24T19:14:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T02:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=2172"},"modified":"2010-09-24T19:14:53","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T02:14:53","slug":"news-brief-safety-drills-to-be-conducted-at-courthouse-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=2172","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Safety drills to be conducted at courthouse tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If the public sees people with Airsoft guns in or around the courthouse in Chehalis tomorrow, they&#8217;re not playing and it&#8217;s not a real attack.<\/p>\n<p>The Lewis County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, in conjunction with region&#8217;s Homeland Security have put together a drill to test a response plan to an emergency at the Lewis County Law and Justice Center.<\/p>\n<p>Some 40 volunteers are expected to participate into the early afternoon, engaging in role playing in such scenarios as confronting a shooter at the building on the south side of Main Street, according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p>On the list to be evaluated are the the safety of the public and people who work inside the building, a webcam-based system, an all-page system and more.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff Steve Mansfield says, in a written statement:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an excellent opportunity for us to evaluate our building security, emergency response plan, and law enforcement response to a threat in the Law and Justice building.<\/p>\n<p>We have seen shootings and terrorist activity throughout the nation and we want to ensure our building is safe for employees to work and the public to visit and do business.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter If the public sees people with Airsoft guns in or around the courthouse in Chehalis tomorrow, they&#8217;re not playing and it&#8217;s not a real attack. The Lewis County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, in conjunction with region&#8217;s Homeland Security have put together a drill to test a response plan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-2172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2172"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2175,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions\/2175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}