Photo Gallery: Glendale PD hostage training at GCC
Glendale SWAT team members look around a corner to spot one of the hostages hiding at Glendale Community College on Wednesday, January 8, 2013. GPD, along with the Glendale College Police Department ran hostage scenarios to practice team responses. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)
Glendale Police Department SWAT team member takes aim at a hostage taker on a bridge from an armored transport vehicle at Glendale Community College on Wednesday, January 8, 2013. GPD, along with the Glendale College Police Department ran hostage scenarios to practice team responses. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)
SWAT team members, with the Glendale Police Department, are in contact with a hostage taker they also have two snipers taking aim upon at Glendale Community College on Wednesday, January 8, 2013. GPD, along with the Glendale College Police Department ran hostage scenarios to practice team responses. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)
Officer Tim Anderson, of the Glendale Police Department, acts as a hostage taker talking with a hostage negotiator with his hostage, Theresa Goldman, commuitcations administrator with GPD, on the parking garage bridge at Glendale Community College on Wednesday, January 8, 2013. GPD, along with the Glendale College Police Department ran hostage scenarios to practice team responses. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)
A hostage on a bridge scenerio resolves after abductor Tim Anderson knees with his hands behind his head as the Glendale Police Department SWAT team moves in to handcuff him at Glendale Community College on Wednesday, January 8, 2013. GPD, along with the Glendale College Police Department ran hostage scenarios to practice team responses. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)
Hostage Theresa Goldman yells when hostage taker Tim Anderson holds a car key to her throat on a pedestrian bridge at Glendale Community College on Wednesday, January 8, 2013. GPD, along with the Glendale College Police Department ran hostage scenarios to practice team responses. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)
A negotiation team with the Glendale Police Department talks with a hostage taker at Glendale Community College on Wednesday, January 8, 2013. GPD, along with the Glendale College Police Department ran hostage scenarios to practice team responses. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)
Hostage Theresa Goldman yells from the pedestrian bridge with hostage taker Tim Anderson behind her at Glendale Community College on Wednesday, January 8, 2013. Goldman and Anderson are both with the GPD, and along with the Glendale College Police Department, they ran hostage scenarios to practice team responses. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)
After a hostage in a classroom scenario concluded, Tim Anderson, in white, who was the hostage taker, talks with the Glendale Police Department about what went right and wrong with the scenario at Glendale Community College on Wednesday, January 8, 2013. GPD, along with the Glendale College Police Department ran hostage scenarios to practice team responses. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)
SWAT team members of the Glendale Police Department exit an armored transport vehicle in response to a hostage on a bridge scenario at Glendale Community College on Wednesday, January 8, 2013. GPD, along with the Glendale College Police Department ran hostage scenarios to practice team responses. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)
A SWAT strike team, with the Glendale Police Department, is in position to overtake a hostage taker at Glendale Community College on Wednesday, January 8, 2013. GPD, along with the Glendale College Police Department ran hostage scenarios to practice team responses. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)
Pasadena firemen from Truck 32 deploy Rescue Inflatable 32 under the pedestrian bridge at Glendale Community College as part of the exercise when a hostage is taken at a high height on Wednesday, January 8, 2013. The Glendale Police Department, along with the Glendale College Police Department, ran hostage scenarios to practice team responses. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)
As Glendale Police SWAT team members deploy for a hostage on a bridge scenerio, a man (who wanted to be unidentified) with a Captain America shield on his backpack, watches the action at Glendale Community College on Wednesday, January 8, 2013. GPD, along with the Glendale College Police Department ran hostage scenarios to practice team responses. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)
Sgt. Samir Abou-Rass, with the Glendale College Police Department, is the hostage negotiator in a hostage on a bridge scenario at Glendale Community College on Wednesday, January 8, 2013. GCPD, along with the Glendale Police Department ran hostage scenarios to practice team responses. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)
Theresa Goldman, communications administrator with the Glendale Police Department, is a hostage in a scenario and is fleeing her abductor on a pedestrian bridge at Glendale Community College on Wednesday, January 8, 2013. GPD, along with the Glendale College Police Department ran hostage scenarios to practice team responses. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)
Glendale SWAT team moves into position to negotiate with a hostage taker at Glendale Community College on Wednesday, January 8, 2013. GPD, along with the Glendale College Police Department ran hostage scenarios to practice team responses. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)
Two Glendale SWAT team members watch a hostage scenario through a window in an elevator at Glendale Community College on Wednesday, January 8, 2013. GPD, along with the Glendale College Police Department ran hostage scenarios to practice team responses. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)
Truck 32 firemen with the Pasadena Fire Department throw a dummy over a pedestrian bridge to demonstrate the rescue inflatable used to attempt to catch people who fall from high places to the Glendale Police Department at Glendale Community College on Wednesday, January 8, 2013. GPD, along with the Glendale College Police Department ran hostage scenarios to practice team responses. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)
A hostage on a bridge scenerio resolves after abductor Tim Anderson knees with his hands behind his head as the Glendale Police Department SWAT team moves in to handcuff him at Glendale Community College on Wednesday, January 8, 2013. GPD, along with the Glendale College Police Department ran hostage scenarios to practice team responses. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)
A Glendale SWAT team members looks around a corner at a hostage situation at Glendale Community College on Wednesday, January 8, 2013. GPD, along with the Glendale College Police Department ran hostage scenarios to practice team responses. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)
Lt. Brian Cohen, with the Glendale Police Department, watches his officers work with a hostage situation at Glendale Community College on Wednesday, January 8, 2013. GPD, along with the Glendale College Police Department ran hostage scenarios to practice team responses. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)