When faced with an active shooter and doors that could not be secured by locks, students improvised barricades, anchored outswinging doors with belts, electrical cords, and found supplies.
I brought this up as a real world example of improvising solutions during a crisis. Hopefully, the campus will learn from this and install proper hardware for a lockdown.
UCLA students forced to improvise to secure classrooms from active shooter By belts and cords, UCLA students secured classroom doors "One of the students in the classroom, the most flustered one came up with the idea" of tying the door using a belt and a projector cable to a table, she said.
In some classrooms on the UCLA campus Wednesday, as students swapped texts about the shootings that ended with two men dead in a nearby building, some people confronted doors that swung out and couldn't be locked.
Students posted images of cords and belts being tied to the hinges and handles to prevent someone from getting in, prompting questions of safety and preparedness on the campus for some 43,000 students.
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