A shooting occurred at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California, on November 14, 2019. The perpetrator used a .45 caliber revolver to shoot five students before turning the weapon on himself in a sequence lasting only 16 seconds. Local emergency response involved a massive deployment of LA County Fire Department personnel wearing bulletproof vests and multiple law enforcement agencies, leading to questions regarding the scale of the response relative to the duration of the event.
