{"id":168900,"date":"2026-04-17T21:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T21:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168900\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T21:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T21:46:09","slug":"erie-va-medical-center-to-conduct-active-threat-training-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168900\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie VA Medical Center to Conduct Active Threat Training | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Erie VA Medical Center\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"728\" height=\"409\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>The Erie VA Medical Center would like to inform the community that there will be a large-scale active threat training exercise on May 2 from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. at the main facility location.<\/p>\n<p>This exercise will be utilized to test and improve response in the event of an active threat situation. Those in nearby areas should note that they may hear sirens, gunshots, or other emergency sounds during the training.<\/p>\n<p>Several law enforcement, fire, and emergency medical service personnel will be at or near the facility. Urgent Care services will continue as normal from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Erie VA Medical Center would like to inform the community that there will be a large-scale active&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[76069,34962,136,138,137,15043,7778,1856],"class_list":["post-168900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-active-threat-training","tag-emergency-preparedness","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-erie-va-medical-center","tag-fire-department","tag-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}