Crisis actor

[7] Actors take on the role of mock victims and simulate specific injuries from a disaster to add life-like realism to an emergency exercise.

[8][9][10] Actors who portray news reporters, relatives of victims, and concerned citizens are also used during drills to train emergency operations center personnel to cope with a variety of emotionally-charged demands and requests.

Visionbox offered dramatic training "in criminal and victim behavior" to actors intended to help "bring intense realism to simulated mass casualty incidents in public places".

Crisis actors are claimed in this context to play the part of bystanders or witnesses, emergency response personnel, and (with the aid of stage makeup) wounded victims of the attack.

[14][15][13][16] In April 2018, the parents of two children killed in the Sandy Hook shooting launched a lawsuit against Jones for defamation "accusing him and his website InfoWars of engaging in a campaign of 'false, cruel, and dangerous assertions'".

Emergency medical technicians from the 96th Medical Group move an airman pretending to be wounded toward safety during an active shooter exercise at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida in 2014.