No timeline to reopen Edmonton city hall as officials review security protocols after shooting
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Edmonton city hall remains closed while the city reviews security protocols for the building, four days after a man fired shots and threw an incendiary device in the main atrium.
Officials are not saying when the security review will be finished or what the possible outcomes may be.
"I think it's fair to say that businesses as usual may have to shift," City Manager Andre Corbould told CBC in an interview this week.
Corbould said he'll wait for a professional firm to make recommendations on the current measures
"When these kinds of things happen, it's really important that we focus less on timelines and more on the conditions that we want to be met," Corbould said. "I'm focused on safety, wellness of staff."
It's also likely city hall will reopen in stages, Corbould added, with staff returning before the general public has access.
Council meetings scheduled from Jan. 29 to Feb. 2 are cancelled, the city announced Friday.
City hall was evacuated Tuesday morning after shots were fired and the fire alarm went off.
City Coun. Tim Cartmell said staff did what they were trained to do and that the clerk in the River Valley Room, where a committee meeting was taking place with councillors and Mayor Amarjeet Sohi, acted with authority.
"[The clerk] was amazing, absolutely amazing," he said.
Cartmell was leaving the building as directed, along with about 10 other people, down a back stairwell.
They were following emergency fire protocols, not knowing a man with a gun was in the main atrium until someone received a text from an outside guest, saying there was an active shooter.
"You've got a number of people mustered and nobody in communication with somebody that's informed," Cartmell said of the evacuation. "And there wasn't a protocol to offer that instruction.
"It's a gap that we need to figure out how to fill."
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