I decided to check ... there seem to be gaps between the initial police arrival at the scene, which was quick, and the police figuring out what had happened:
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The recordings begin at 9:35 a.m. with a dispatcher calmly reporting a 911 call about “somebody shooting in the building,” followed two minutes later by the chilling update that a caller was “continuing to hear what he believes to be gunfire.”
One dispatcher notifies responding officers that a teacher reported seeing “two shooters, running past the gym.”
“Make sure you have your vests on,” a voice cautions officers in the early minutes.
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The first scanner activity was at about 9:36 a.m., when officers first arrived at the school. They found broken glass by the front door -- officials now say Lanza broke a window to get past the locked front door.
[ OK, that's fast. But ... what did they do? ]
At 9:43 a.m., an officer requests two ambulances.
"We have one fatal in a room, and one who has received a gunshot wound in the foot," an officer says.
Three minutes later, an officer asked for even more ambulances. By 9:53 a.m., an officer said that a suspect was down.
[ 17 minutes from arrival to find the shooter. ]
"The building has not been cleared," he said. "We need a couple more cars up at the scene."
Four minutes later, an officer tells others to bring injured children to the base of the school.
"Roger, 9-8, extricating the people out of the school," an officer responded.
Officers described finding multiple weapons -- a shotgun and a rifle -- as they continued to search the school.
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[ Shotgun? ]
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