City of Olean Fire Department

The City of Olean would like to thank the St. John the Evangelist Parish for helping us plan, coordinate and host a very unique course to better prepare our local first responders in the event, God forbid, a mass casualty incident like this should ever occur in our area. The Active Threat Integrated Response Coarse (ATIRC) is a 24-hour performance level direct course designed to improve integration between law enforcement, fire and emergency medical services (EMS) in active shooter events. The training provides law enforcement officers with key medical skills based on tactical emergency casualty care (TECC) guidelines which can be used at the point of injury (POI) to increase survivability of victims. The instruction also provides a model framework for law enforcement, fire, and EMS to integrate responses during an active shooter event through the rescue task force concept using the Active Shooter Incident Management Checklist. This course has been designed to improve the safety and survivability of victims of active shooter and mass shooting events and increases the effectiveness, coordination, and resource integration between law enforcement, Fire and EMS personnel when responding to these events. The Course Provider, National Center of Biomedical Research and Testing ( NCBRT), is a member of the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium and is based out of Louisiana State University. Instructors from Louisiana, Alabama, Texas and Arizona came to Olean to teach the first responders from all across Western New York. The class had 47 registered participants, a required 10 victims to take part in the drill, and was observed by BOCES Criminal Justice Class as well as elected officials. We could not have pulled this all together with the help and support of our community partners like you. Thank you! Sincerely, Tim Richardson City of Olean Fire Chief Our Pastor Fr. John, is actively developing a mental health team and a emergency response plan. Our parish at the Basilica will join our linked community in offering thorough training to leadership in our parish for emergency response such as CPR, emergency contact and technique and crisis management in the near future.