AX-O
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DR, please remove if this is not appropriate. I just needed to get this off my chest.
In my job I place myself in situations were risk is much higher than I would like. Flight testing is dangerous business sometimes. I know that and I am willing to accept that risk if need be. That said, my fianc?e works at a medical clinic. A job that I would consider to be very low risk on her life. We live in a very small town in the middle of the Mojave Desert. Population around 30,000 people.
Boy was I wrong. Yesterday a gunman entered her building. Pockets full of amo (trunk also full of amo) and an armed weapon in hand. He walked across from the office she works in, hit a lady in the head (and the arm) with the weapon and opened fire. The lady took off running and went to my fianc?e?s office. The lady started screaming to call 911 that he had a gun. Someone in my fianc?e?s office ran and locked the front door. They gather all the patients and put them in examination rooms and told them to lie down.
I was at work when I received the call. ?Honey, I am hiding under a desk. There is a man in the building with a gun. We are in one of the examining rooms. Just wanted to call and let you know what is going on before you found out. I have to go, love you?. After that call I was out of it. I did not know what to do. I wanted to leave however I did not want to be in the way of the authorities if I went to her work. Then the email came across. Our facility was secured, no one in, no one out.
I called my fianc?e again and she did not pick up. I was really worried now. She called me a few minutes later and told me the shots were very close to her and that she could smell the gun powder. Then one last shot.
The cops took the gunman down and everyone was evacuated out of the building. After talking to the police she and her coworkers were released and told to go home. By that time my facility was no longer on lock down. I drove home and spent the rest of the day with her.
She is doing ok, however she is very timid and out of it at times. She told me everything keeps replaying in her mind. No one other than the gunman lost their life.
I, like many of you build and fly. Some times I worry and place too much attention on things that should not matter. Yes, one of my dreams is to build and fly my own aircraft. BUT what really is important in life, is life. It is unfortunate that I have been caught up in this project and it took something this drastic to realize how fragile life is. The news paper story can be read here click
DR, like I said. Please delete if this is in violation of any of the forum rules or regs.
In my job I place myself in situations were risk is much higher than I would like. Flight testing is dangerous business sometimes. I know that and I am willing to accept that risk if need be. That said, my fianc?e works at a medical clinic. A job that I would consider to be very low risk on her life. We live in a very small town in the middle of the Mojave Desert. Population around 30,000 people.
Boy was I wrong. Yesterday a gunman entered her building. Pockets full of amo (trunk also full of amo) and an armed weapon in hand. He walked across from the office she works in, hit a lady in the head (and the arm) with the weapon and opened fire. The lady took off running and went to my fianc?e?s office. The lady started screaming to call 911 that he had a gun. Someone in my fianc?e?s office ran and locked the front door. They gather all the patients and put them in examination rooms and told them to lie down.
I was at work when I received the call. ?Honey, I am hiding under a desk. There is a man in the building with a gun. We are in one of the examining rooms. Just wanted to call and let you know what is going on before you found out. I have to go, love you?. After that call I was out of it. I did not know what to do. I wanted to leave however I did not want to be in the way of the authorities if I went to her work. Then the email came across. Our facility was secured, no one in, no one out.
I called my fianc?e again and she did not pick up. I was really worried now. She called me a few minutes later and told me the shots were very close to her and that she could smell the gun powder. Then one last shot.
The cops took the gunman down and everyone was evacuated out of the building. After talking to the police she and her coworkers were released and told to go home. By that time my facility was no longer on lock down. I drove home and spent the rest of the day with her.
She is doing ok, however she is very timid and out of it at times. She told me everything keeps replaying in her mind. No one other than the gunman lost their life.
I, like many of you build and fly. Some times I worry and place too much attention on things that should not matter. Yes, one of my dreams is to build and fly my own aircraft. BUT what really is important in life, is life. It is unfortunate that I have been caught up in this project and it took something this drastic to realize how fragile life is. The news paper story can be read here click
DR, like I said. Please delete if this is in violation of any of the forum rules or regs.
