The day after a loner with reported behavioral problems opened fire at a South Florida school, killing 17 and wounding a dozen more, Bulloch County sheriff's Capt. Todd Mashburn began getting phone calls. He owns a business, Fit to Fight, where the public can learn how to defend themselves in dangerous situations, but Mashburn's duties as training captain at the Sheriff's Office include training faculty, staff, business owners, teachers, daycare workers and others on how to be safe in public emergency events. The day after the Parkland school shootings, his phone stayed busy as call after call came in from concerned parents. But preparations for the possibility of such a tragedy happening here should have been in place long ago, he said. "It is bad we have to have a tragedy to create a stir to do something we should have done all along," he said. The way schools handle active shooter or similar dangers is changing he said. "It is changing from lockdowns to 'Run, Hide, Fight,'" a plan sanctioned by the FBI and Homeland Security.
'Run, Hide, Fight'
Sheriff's Office offers active shooter training to public