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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?
Active Violence Incident Chain of Survival
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Lets go to Medical School…
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?
