As a Russian girl managed to escape during the shooting at a school in Florida

Pupils of the American School named Marjory Stoneman Douglas Parkland, Fla., was trained in the event of a weapon attack. Special exercises were conducted at the school, video surveillance systems were installed and emergency exits were identified. Still, February 14, on Valentine's Day, as a result of armed attacksя at school died 17 people. That day Varya Chernyaeva came to study and said:Voice of America“What was happening inside.

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Victims of high school shooting Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland last Wednesday, 17 people were killed and 14 people were injured. Several victims remain in serious condition. The attacker, 19-year-old former school student Nikolas Cruz, was arrested an hour after the incident and confessed to the massacre.

Varya remembers how it was.

“This was the last lesson. Literally 20 minutes before it ended, the fire siren rang. All embarrassed by the fact that in the morning was already training on fire safety. The teachers were also surprised. After some time, the siren stopped, but one of the representatives of the school administration through the loudspeaker asked everyone to begin evacuation. ”

Most thought it was "code black, Indicating the presence of a bomb in the building. Prior to this, schoolchildren received brochures with lists of different codes, each of which signaled a possible danger at school, and information on how to react to it. Each class had its own place to evacuate, so after anxiety, the students began evacuating from the class on their intended route.

“When we started going down the stairs, a couple of students ran up to us and told us to go somewhere else because there were police officers downstairs with guns. At that moment I heard popping noises and couldn’t even think that they were shots. They didn't sound like gunshots. Panic began in the corridor. The teachers were not warned about the new teachings, so everyone went wherever they wanted,” recalls Varya.

She returned to her teacher in class, and at that moment over the loudspeaker announced "Code red", That is," active school shooting. "

"When we have"code red", we need to lock ourselves in the classroom, turn off the lights, sit away from windows and doors and not use electronics. That’s what we did,” Varya said.

She was lucky, because on the day of the shooting, her lessons were held in a different building, but nobody knew about that then. They did what they were taught about.

“Out of 17 people in the class, only 6 people remained in the class and the teacher, who knew that the rest had run into the next class and another teacher was there with them. We were sure until the end that this was a drill, because we promised to hold a similar “performance” within two months. We expected the police to come, knock on the doors, simulating shooting, and shoot either blanks or salt. We sit and understand that this is 100% teaching. But then we heard sirens, the sound of a helicopter and noticed that the lesson ended 20 minutes ago, there was no bell, they shouldn’t delay us, and something was going wrong. Then we saw that there was a school shooting on the news, and we realized what had happened,” says Varya.

The girl’s father, Alexander Chernyaev, learned about the shooting from his acquaintance.

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“At first I didn’t believe that this could happen. A friend called me and asked what was going on at our school,” says Varya’s father, Alexander Chernyaev.

He reassured his friend that it was an exercise alarm, but then he was shocked when he saw that the school where his daughter was studying was shown on TV:

“People, special forces, armored cars. I got a light shock. This is beyond words, because you understand all the helplessness of the situation when you are a kilometer away from school, where your child is locked up, and you cannot get there because everything is cordoned off. I am grateful to my daughter that she immediately picked up the phone when I called her. If she had not picked up the phone, I cannot imagine what would have happened. ”

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Varya said that after the children realized that they were in real danger, a belated panic began. “Some cried, some were calm,” says the Russian-speaking student. “After 2 hours, the police started walking around the classrooms and saying that everything was calm and they could go out.”

Both Varya and her father appreciated the actions of the teacher who organized the children and did not allow them to panic at the moment of active shooting. When anxious parents began to call the children, he asked to hand the phone to him and calmly talked, thereby not heating up the situation. He reassured his students that even if the shooter wants to enter the classroom, having broken the window, they have a utility room, where they cannot get to.

The shooter was a former student of this school. 19-year-old Nicholas Cruz. The motives of the shooter are currently not established, but it is known that he had previously been expelled from this educational institution for disciplinary reasons, calling it a “threat” to students. Young man whom adopted At birth, an elderly couple, recently suffered from depression. His father died when the boy was still young, and his mother was buried just 3 a month ago.

Photo: Marjory Stoneman Douglas

On Friday, Donald Trump went to Parkland, where he visited the wounded, and also held several meetings with relatives of the victims and law enforcement officers. At these meetings, Trump talked a lot about security issues in schools, but he didn’t raise the topic of restricting access to firearms.

On Saturday evening, thousands of Florida residents went to a rally, demanding that the authorities impose tougher restrictions on the sale and possession of weapons.

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