Grand Forks Air Force Base Says They're Ready for An Emergency

After yesterday's deadly shooting rampage that killed more than a dozen at the Ft. Hood Army base in Texas, we wanted to see what procedures were in place at the Grand Forks Air Force base for such an incident.

The shooting rampage at the Ft. Hood, Texas Army Base yesterday has never happened at Grand Forks Air Force Base. But if it did, the base is prepared.

Jereme Barrett: "First of all we have some procedures in place with respect to instructions, a checklist, challenges that type of deal when we can respond to an incident."

Barrett heads security forces on the base. He says they practice their threat procedures with full scale drills every year.

The first line of defense here on the base would be a full scale lock down so no one can get in or out, The last time they did that was after 911.

Jereme Barrett: "Most of the base personnel would cease except for essential people, we would look at the situation, isolate it, identify what was happening and tailor our response based on what we've identified."

If a Ft. Hood-type shooting broke out, the Grand Forks base would be in what's called Force of Protection Condition Delta. Next, on base active duty airmen would be put on alert.

Jereme Barrett: "We have security forces unit that is here and 165 active duty military types and guard and reserve that are on base."

If more man power was need they can request help from the Grand Forks Sheriff Office, Police and Swat team. Barrett says its likely it would never come to that point.

Jereme Barrett: "Being located where we are in the U.S. we have a low threat. However we have to be ready for everything that's goes on through our country and the world and we implement those threats into what we do."

However the exact details of the base's plan are classified.

The base says they'll look at the incident in Ft.Hood that happened yesterday and try to learn and make changes to their procedure based on what they see.