POCATELLO - Ten different emergency response groups were at Idaho State University this morning for an active shooter training.

But the practice isn't just to find out what they're doing right, it also helps them learn what they can do better.

Overall officials called the drill successful, but with so many crews responding to today's training there were a few problems.

The drill started this morning at 9:00 a.m. with a gunman inside Dyer Hall. Minutes later officers surrounded the area and captured the shooter. Nathan Alford, a "victim" said, "Even though we knew it was fake, the heart rate still went up-at least mine did. Especially when they came in the room and fired the gun in the room."

Student victims were used to make the scenario realistic. Their safety was one of the top priorities. David Gates, division chief with Pocatello Fire department said, "You really have the whole campus under lockdown until you can neutralize, find where the shooter is, and make sure it's safe for everybody."

Just a few minutes after police officers had a suspect in custody they began taking bodies out of the building and bringing them to ambulances, but not all of them made it. Alford said, "I was supposed to tell them that i'm bleeding a lot, so they would take immediate action, which they forgot to do. So I died on the way to the hospital."

At times emergency crews also had dead communicating with each other, and their supervisors because there were so many people on scene. Gates said, "Part of that was because we were having different dispatchers that were communicating. Communication is always going to be an issue."

To make sure other students were protected ISU Public Safety tested out their notification systems-sending out e-mails and using a reverse 911 call. Stephen Chatterton, director of ISU Public Safety said, "It took us about an hour to make the reverse 911 calls."

But everyone invovled hopes today's practice won't ever be needed for an actual emergency.

After today's drill emergency crews met and reviewed everything that happened in order to find out where more training might be needed.