I appreciate your on-site observations, and that could very well be. But no one in that video seems to be doing ANYTHING. They’re definitely all walking around in unison, but no one seems to have a purpose at all. And many are indeed just circling the building. Just seems very odd.
Thank you for your commentary! Well done!
I will never forget what one of my friends (an officer in one of the fire companies in Newtown) said to me about that day. He responded to the scene (it was at least 20 minutes into it) lights and siren. In a big truck. He was passing the exit ramp from I-84 and almost got broadsided by a CT State Police car that just blew through the traffic light.
He followed three police cars to the scene and he said it was complete chaos. He stepped out of the truck and he said all he could smell was burning brakes.
He also said he made himself available to help but he couldn’t go into the school (crime scene) and there was no triage or other medical stuff to be done (there was no one to triage). The road was blocked off a mile away in each direction so there was no traffic control needed, and police were STILL responding from all over the place so you had to watch where you were stepping.
I can’t imagine what it was like, but I’ve seen some videos and heard from other people. I would imagine that everyone wanted to help and didn’t want to leave, so they just wandered aimlessly.
Ok. I looked at the video. That’s the BACK of the Sandy Hook firehouse, which faces what was the Sandy Hook School. There are a lot of ambulances there, including one from Danbury (15 minutes away) and one from Oxford (next town over). There are a few town trucks, probably volunteer firefighters that work for the town, and the Newtown paramedic truck was there.
In the part of the building to the right of the screen was where parents who couldn’t find their children were waiting. There was a priest and the First Selectman and eventually the governor in that space, along with tons of first responders. Many of the circling people could very well be panicked parents looking for their kids, because as we know more than twenty found out in that room that their kids were murdered.