NH School Simulates Shooting Scenario Days After Oregon Tragedy

GOFFSTOWN, N.H. (CBS) -- It's eerily familiar. Shots are fired inside a dark theater, and an actor plays the part of a bad guy shot down. Police officers, firefighters, and EMTs worked with school administrators from across New Hampshire in a training drill at Goffstown High School Sunday. Although it was planned well before last week, the drill happened only three days after the latest school shooting made headlines from Douglas County, Oregon.

"It's every superintendent's worst nightmare," said Goffstown School Superintendent Brian Balke. "The worst scenario you could think of, but you have to prepare for it," he said.

In the pretend ordeal, some students with gory make-up came out on stretchers. A second shooter was taken down in the school library, and a police officer was shot.

"Everything that people learned today is not just for an active shooter scenario," said Emily Martuscello, a training officer with the state's Homeland Security office. "We could have a roof collapse, we could have a hazmat stuation, or a real fire. We'd be using many of the same procedures, and we'd have the same command system."

"Read the news. Look at the TV," said Goffstown Police Captain Kerry Steckowych. "Unfortunately these types of things are all too common."