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Preparing your Community to Survive an Active

Shooter Event

Presented by: Ofer Lichtman, NREMT-P

Terrorism Liaison Officer Coordinator

Who should teach this class?

police

Firefighters

Rocky and David

My commitment to you

• Review Rancho Cucamonga Community Active Shooter Response Program

• First Care Provider training

• How to implement a program

Objectives for today:

How did we decide? The Hedgehog Concept!

Are we passionate about Tactical Response?

Are we passionate about our mission and core

values?

What are we the best in the world at?

Does our community expect usto be all risk? Will they support

us if we are not?

As the leaders of your agencies, don't stop once you have trained all your people

• You should:

• Reach out to your schools

• Train and educate city staff

• We need public education (brain wash the community!)

• Train Community on Active shooter response and survival

• First Care Provider.

Build resiliency and empower your community

How should we train civilians for prevention?

How should we train civilians to respond?

It only takes a few minutes!

The results speak for themselves!

Once upon a time...• Patti Nielson

Average Law Enforcement Response

time in America

3 Minutes

Average Fire Department Paramedic

Response time in America

8 Minutes

Rancho Cucamonga Rescue Task Force (Fire

and Law) Entry Time

10-15 Minutes to treatment

Who will make the biggest difference?

YOU!!! The First Care Provider

Who is our #1 enemy?DENIAL

Do you think we are safe from terrorism?

How will YOU respond when the time comes?

Kenya Westgate Mall attack 80 hours 67 dead.

M.O. of homegrown

M.O. of homegrown

M.O. of homegrown

Terrorist learn from each other

So, what should be reported?

It’s not always obvious

Why does this catch your eye?

Normal vs Not

Suspicious people

What is an active shooter?

• An active shooter event involves one or more persons engaged in killing or attempting to kill multiple people in a confined and populated area.

• A- Action

• C- Communicate

• T- Treat

What to do in an Active Shooter?You mustA-C-T

A - ActionRun - Hide - Fight

Run • Have a plan

• Leave your belongings

• Help others

• Call 911 when safe

• Leave phone on with 911 if you can’t talk

• Keep hands visible

Action - Hide

• Behind locked door

• Shut the lights off

• Block the door with heavy objects

• Silence phone

• Turn off any noise making devices

• Remain quiet and calm

Hide

Room 204 and 205Virginia Tech

Professor Liviu Librescu

• As a last resort, when your life is in danger

• Attempt to disrupt or incapacitate shooter

• Act as aggressively as possible towards them

• Throw items and improvise weapons

• Yell

• Commit to your action

• Don’t be a sitting “duck” or a “sheep”

Action - Fight

Examples

• Call or Text 911

• Warn people around you

• Location of shooter

• Number of shooter

• Description of shooter

• Number and types of weapons

• Number and location of victims

C - Communicate

•Don’t be afraid to treat others

T - Treat

1799.102. (a) No person who in good faith, and not for compensation, renders emergency medical or nonmedical care at the scene of an emergency shall be liable for any civil damages resulting from any act or omission.

Remember, who will make the biggest difference?

YOU!!! The First Care Provider

So what do we do now?

Lets take a look at the CPR and AED model

How many adults die in the “workplace“ from sudden

Cardiac Arrest?

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Triangle of life

Treatment PrioritiesC - A - R - E

• C - Critical Bleeding ( stop all bleeding)

• A - Airway ( unconscious, lay them on side)

• R - Respiratory ( cover holes in torso)

• E - Evacuate / environment ( get them to professionals and keep them warm)

Treatment PrioritiesSituational Awareness

Tourniquets

Practice:Crawl, walk and run…

How do you implement this?

How do you implement this?

RANCHO CUCAMONGA FIRE DISTRICT

ofer.Lichtman@cityofrc.us

THANK YOU!

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