Thank you for paying attention to your dispatchers. We are often overlooked but we suffer a lot of emotional trauma.

I'm so grateful for you first responders for always running into the storm and not running away from it thank you so much for all of your efforts of all of us

Thank you both for posting this, and talking about what happened yesterday. Thank you to all the police, fire, and EMS personnel that responded. It's unfortunate that this happened, especially so close to Columbine High School. Thank you all for what you do. My deepest condolences go out to the victims and their families, and may the one student rest in peace.

Living 5 minutes from the STEM school and working as a construction engineer intern at the UC Health hospital which is where y’all did the active shooter training, I passed that school every day on the way to work and I could have never imagined this happening. I even had a friend who was working as a high school intern on the construction site with me who attends the STEM school and I could never be more grateful for South Metro and Douglas County sheriff for their quick response. Thank you for your amazing work. Y’all saved lives.

Blessed are the peace keepers. Amazing job from everyone involved and it shows a true testiment to the training and skill of all staff members on the departments. You all have prayers and support from all of us here in Wisconsin.

As a Chaplain for a small rural fire district I wish that I could pray this all away. I wish that words would take the pain and sorrow from the lowest person at fleet services to the Chief, Sheriff, Fire Chief. Please know that even us from Rural Oregon are here for those that need it. May the light of day, bring you peace and the dark of night bring you rest. I am sorry for what you have had to go through, your report (VLOG) on this shows your dedication, and humanity in this. You are very professional and great to watch. Please take care and know that we are watching from afar and praying for you and your communities recovery in this matter. Thank you for what you do.

Thank you for your service guys. This was in my county and I really do appreciate you guys helping to serve the public in these horrible incidents.

Eric and Connor, my heart went out to you guys when I saw the news. I heard it was in Douglas and from previous VLOG’s I felt I knew right where it was. As a Physician that works in this field heavily, at local and federal level, teaching to Tactical Paramedics, and my self responding to scene with our local SWAT team on calls for service and warrants you must look for the well being of your staff. It’s never enough to say, “let us know if you need anything” it is on us as professionals to make sure that our team members are not slipping into a pattern of substance abuse, or self destructive behavior. It’s good to put the information out there always, it’s equally good to get with your fellow Fire Fighters from the scene debrief heavily, and see who disengages, and follow up with them and their closest friends, to ensure their headspace is in the right place. Coming from a military background and having to help close friends get through points beyond rock bottom, they don’t typically reach out. The benefits to checking on your buddy is keeping your buddy around. Sorry for sounding preachy suicide rates are rising in the Blue and Red fields... that’s why facilities like ‘Warriors Heart’ treats first responders just like career Special Forces Veterans. You guys are just as much warriors as we are, we are in this together...

You two did a great job with this vlog! Classy, emotionally raw, informative, personal, and appreciative all come to mind after watching it! Keeping those involved and our public safety family in my thoughts and prayers! Keep up the great content!

Like Mr Rogers told us, "When things are scary, Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”

Thank you guys for all that you do. My thoughts and prayers are with each and every one of you.

Thank you for all that you do and for helping all of these people super scary

Thank yall for what you do. I've followed the academy for about a month now, yall are amazing.

Thank you for all you do. South Metro fire rescue is one of the best departments in Denver metro area. Praying for those victims and their families.Rest in peace to the kid who got killed.

OMG Connor. I know this is now months behind you but I have just discovered your channel. I can't imagine being as new to the job as you were, going through this. As a FF/Medic for 29 years, I know the toll it takes on you. God bless you for being able to take this so early in your career.

Thank you so much for this report sad as it was. I hope your community residents realize what a professional, organized, and prepared punch of first-responders they have. Blessings as you continue to deal with the aftermath.

It's so sad, that this happens especially at a high school. My condolences & prayers are with the families that lost their loved ones. I appreciate & grateful to ALL of the responders that arrived & cared. May you all be blessed for any reasons of being on the field for our safety.

Thank you for all that you do for our community.

After seeing the whole Texas operations for the Uvlade school shooting, I'm truly greatful to have experienced first responders that know what to do, and when to do those things.

I love the program you all have that utilizes Service dogs. Coming from a Mental Health background in the military, I am a strong supporter of this type of use as therapy and recovery from a traumatic situations. Even those that respond need someone they can talk to.

Thank you for all you do.

As a former paramedic, I want to show some love to my brothers and sisters at South Metro Fire and Rescue. Another senseless event, but our First Responders, as always, performed in a heroic, and professional manner. My concern is that our folks reach out for help in dealing with PTSD related issues...it takes a lot of guts to ask for help! Please do so if you feel the need. Peace, my friends.

A sensitive and informative vlog. Thought of you guys when it was broadcast over here. Stay safe all of you. Peace and blessings from New Zealand!

Thank you for this post, clearly the training shows, your men and women all did an excellent job from the outside perspective. Hopefully there can be some training advise offered to other agencies across the state in their preparations. Stay safe and take care from Pueblo Rural Fire.

You know.... Having responded to Columbine dealing with that the last 20+ years, it is good that you guys are looking after each other... I still have issues today.... It took everything that I had just to watch this vlog... Thanks Eric and Connor...

Wow, being a volunteer firefighter I try to imagine the response to our high school but I cannot imagine and don’t want to experience a school shooting. I am sorry for your community and ty for the quick response to the incident

Connorand Eric, please know that that I am one person who knows what it is like to lose a patient, and the hurt that goes with it. Ive served on an ambulance and had two youngsters die on me. Even as I write this, I see their little faces. Thank you all for the work you do and the services you provide to your fire district. Connor, your blue card training came into play on the Stem incident? If so, well done, and thank you for stepping up! PTSD is no fun. I am available if you need an ear.

Thank you for all you do. God bless you guys.

Thank you for all your help

My heart is with you guys. It sucks for what you guys went through. My heart goes out to the families that dealing with the heart ache. Good luck to you all

Prayers for your community as you continue to heal. Thank you to all the emergency response teams for quick and precise response. The Peace of the Lord be with you.

Was listening to the scanner when it was developing. Very professional and well kept group of guys and gals. It's a shame this kind of training had to be put to use.

Sounds like a great job done! I’m glad your department takes mental health seriously.

Thank you south metro fire and all of the fire and law enforcement officers

Thanks Connor and Eric for a superb job with vlog...... I can tell emotions are raw and painful.... I'm sending out prayers for you 2 and your entire dept *** 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤❤

God bless all the students, family's and school staff and God bless the South Metro fire and Douglas county Sheriffs officers and all ems personnel.

God Bless you guys! THANK YOU!

Thank you very much for your service and for your quick response and I hope you have a good day

R.I.P to the one who died god bless all those sent to the incident may you all get the help and support you may need all the best to the families involved at this time

I am praying for that person who lost their life and no one should be going through these problems with shootings and I hope everything at that school is better and no child should be going through this same with adult and firefighter

Im shocked the school didn't have a resource officer your county has had this happen to often. Living in central ohio my high school had two resource officers and that was before schools were targets. It was your fast response that saved so many lives.

Very sad situation. To all first responders-thank you for your service 24/7 365. 🖤♥️🖤 🖤💙🖤

Kendrick Castillo is the only name that should be said, his name is the only name I wanna see in the headlines. He tackled the shooter and there’s no telling how many lives you saved by doing such a heroic thing. A true hero

I will keep the families in my prayers And if there's anything I can do to help through this difficult time that is just so tragic but I know this kind of thing happens i'll be praying for the family anybody that was affected by The terrible tragedy shooting but I'm glad you guys did a good job and you work as a team 🚒👋🏾🖐🏿👍🏿👊🏾❤️😥😢

In Arvada and it was the most depressing thing to see and hear it going on and that u know u can't do anything but watch

It's always interesting to see the different ways in which incidents like these are handled throughout the country. Fire and EMS here in New York don't operated in the "Hot Zone" during incidents with active shooters so, it's a bit of a foreign concept for us.

I wish everyone in the community saw this video so they knew exactly what went into this response and to answer their questions or shoot down their critical views of things they don't understand (ie. why are their so many units standing around, etc.). Then they would see what I saw... that in the 20 years since Columbine, our local emergency agencies studied, planned and practiced WHAT THEY COULD DO BETTER since 1999. We many not be able to prevent the violence, but you guys can - and have - found better ways to respond to them. Thank you.

Just when I think you can't be any more prepared and equipped to meet whatever the day throws your way...you have Champ. Perfect...for a pretty perfect fire and rescue outfit.

Constant prayers being sent, stay safe out there!

Respect!! from the Netherlands!

This is a real show of foe officers and firefighters work together

Conner great job done by you and your dept you guys are in my prayers and thoughts stay safe brothers and sisters

I'm so sorry that you guys had to deal with that no one should ever have to prepare for something like this but thank you for doing that being prepared and ready to help thank you to firefighters paramedics the officers who are all there may God bless you

Prayers to all involved

You guys have a good team very proud of you guys for stepping up to help people in need

An excellent after action summary

I am watching this as we laid to rest yesterday one of my neighboring FD's firefighters that ended his own life so this is hitting close to home about first responders suicide rates going up.

Thank you for your service ☺☺☺

I am a 16 year firefighter veteran, nice job!

Just wondering when you guys are going to do the fleet Friday of collapse 45

My thoughts and prayers are with my brothers and sisters in South metro Fire Rescue and for the community I pray that God heals your pain and that the family of the lost student finds peace in this tragedy 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾😢😢💔💔

Love your Chanel

So sorry, REST IN PEACE and god be with the family that lost the kid... how old were the kids or people?

GREAT JOB GUYS!

This is why I’m glad to hear that they have an active shooter training certification for these types of things. As someone who has that cert. I think it is an important thing that all stations have it.

Prayers from the U.K

Did Aurora fire respond to that call

Sorry about shooting but awesome job guys.❤️

you saved my friends, thank you.

What a sad day for those innocent children.

Can't imagine Dispatch too. I woulda flipped, haha. Thanks for your guy's service!!

😞 I am so sorry

GOD BLESS YOU ALL KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK

This just showed up in my recommended again. This was only a year ago??

my prayers for the victims and their families and for all First Responders.

My brother was in this shooting... thank god he wasn’t harmed

Who ever disliked the video u need to get a heart

sorry to hear about that prayers for yous

One of my friends dads is a sherrif deputy and had to respond and clear that school

So Very Sad.

Great respectful video and channel!!!! Hopefully we can eventually follow your lead with a channel !!! Helps public understand much more . Thanks again . Edison NJ Fire Dept

Are you planning a multi agency debrief? Those of us putting together the RTF training would like to hear exactly how it went. PM me with any details of a debrief.

I was in that school when it happened and I can hear the screaming and yelling as people ran and as the police cleared the classrooms

How could someone dislike

So sad that we have to deal with this it must stop smh prayers for all

I hope that next video is a happy one. I am very sad hearing some of the audio, because it happened in Colorado. Prayers go out to the family's of the students who got shot during the stem shooting. Thank you South Metro Fire Rescue for keeping our communities safe,Also Thank you to 911 dispatchers for listening to medical emgerenicies such as school shootings . Prayers go out to the family's also known as the active shooters in this case. Thanks to the Douglas County police department for keeping everybody calm and safe during this call. Thank you healthcare workers for caring gunshot wounded paients and the other trauma team workers who were In the hospital that day. That you Emts for responding so calm while also trying to stay calm yourselves is unbelievable and so awesome to see and as always god bless and keep up the hard work that you guys do. I feel bad because you guys are pretty underrated sometimes all you need is a hug. and sugar to make you feel better when you are at low or a high moment in your career. Prayers go out the family that lost their son in a school shooting in highlands Ranch you guys wake up in middle of the night to go on crazy calls which empowered me to get up this morning at 5:05 AM. to start my day off right. When you are away from your family it messes with your mind and it interrupts your sleep and it can mess with your cardican clock as well. Also when the 9/11 attacks when on in New York City is when I felt bad the people who injured and in critical condition I can only image that ICUS were overwhelmed because of how many people needed to be transported to the hospital and some that lost their lives because they could escape from the twin towers that day. do you guys remember the I-25 tanker fire and if you do know that incident impacted so many people and the tanker driver, and in 2018 on November 8 there was fire in California and the name of the fire that went on down in California it was the most deadliest and destructive wildfire in California's history. There was so much traffic trying to get out of paradise and many other communities that used that road to get from point A to point B or they're houses to the store and many other places. And they had to do some search and rescue. I just wish that nothing like that doesn't happen again or to anyone else. We need to keep schools a safe place where kids and students can learn without being interrupted by a school shooter that was the student's classmates or friends. We need to be nice to those with a disabled medical conditions.Thank you both for posting this, and talking about what happened yesterday. Thank you to all the police, fire, and EMS personnel that responded. It's unfortunate that this happened, especially so close to Columbine High school. Thank you all for what you do.My deepest condolences go out to the victims and their family's., and may the one student rest in peace. You two did a great job with this vlog! Classy, emotionally raw. Blessed are the peace keepers. Amazing job from everyone involved and it shows a true testament to the training and skill of all staff menbers on the departments. You all have prayers and support from all of us here in Wisconsin. Eric and Connor, my heart went out to you guys when I saw the news. I heard it was in Douglas and from previous VLOG's I felt I knew right where it was. As a physician and someone who works in the field heavily , at local and federal level, teaching to Tactical paramedics, and my self responding to science with our local SWAT team on calls for service and warrants you must look for the well being of your staff.

very good debriefing breakdown

Did you have triage on scene and mutual aid both or just one or the other?

I may be in the UK but thank u for saving those people 🙂😕🙂

*amazing grace begins*

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Why was the rescue called out to this incident?

WTH is going in that district. 3 major mass shootings in recent memories.

Omg I'm so sorry

How were you emotionally affected

Hi I hope that the fire fighter is ok and police people 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

thank south metor fire rescue

so so sad

Man i was actually there when it happened, i was in 6th grade and i remember being so excited to leave and go home

REST IN PEICE I am in Denver 1 week latrr