Thankfully, Thursday’s code blue was an “armed and dangerous” drill, one of several that Decatur schools do throughout the year that include fire, tornado and earthquake drills.

“A code blue is a drill that prepares the school for the worst of the worst,” Jenks says. “It could be an intruder of some kind, it could be an active shooter.

Even if a drill is mandated, like a code blue drill or a fire drill, staff members need to take it seriously. “ When you are dealing with disasters, you might take it a little bit lightly, thinking ...

MJC instructor Sally Chaffee, left, gets caught up in the moment as second-year medical resident Sabrina Arora performs CPR on a doomed mannequin during a code blue drill Friday at Modesto Junior ...

When Naval Health Clinic Patuxent River nurse Yulissa Brown participated in the clinic’s code blue drill on June 30, she had no idea how soon she would need her refreshed ...