The Dallas, Garland and Fort Worth police SWAT teams have spent three days training for school safety scenarios at a school building slated for demolition.
Friday's exercise at Bishop Lynch Catholic High School was about shots fired at a school.
"Some of the kids have been evacuated but, right now, we don't know if the building is secured," said Terigi Rossi, the 15-year SWAT member who led the training.
The lessons the Dallas SWAT team learned are invaluable, police say.
"Any kind of training that we can [have] like this where we can use schools for school shootings or libraries, it's extremely critical," said Lt. Paul Junger, head of the Dallas SWAT team.
The training exercise itself was not open to the public, but the SWAT team offered a training demonstration to the media.
A partnership between the Dallas Police Department and Bishop Lynch made the training possible.
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"We realize that a tragedy could happen here similar to those we've all read about," said Edward Leyden, school president. "It could happen at a private school as well as a public school."
School at Bishop Lynch ended for the year before the training began.
The building used will be demolished Saturday to make way for the Student Complex for Arts & Athletics that is part of the high school's expansion.
