10/11/2015
District A's CEU and Cedar Point event was a howling good time!
Receiving active shooter response training, attendees are now prepared to act if faced with a scary situation.
District A's CEU and Cedar Point HalloWeekends event recap
Held Sunday, October 11, 2015
Castaway BayCedar Point Indoor Water Park2001 Cleveland RoadSandusky, Ohio 44871Meeting Room Location: Bay A
Congratulations to our raffle winners, including Angie Riley for the grand prize raffle drawing of a $50 Cedar Point gift card!
On Sunday, October 11, 2015, OCRA members joined Wood County Sheriff’s Office’s Captain Scott Frank as he walked each of us through ALICE. ALICE is an acronym for five steps you can utilize in order to increase your chances of surviving a surprise attack by an active shooter: Alert-Lockdown-Inform-Counter-Evacuate.
An active shooter (the term violent intruder can also be used) event involves one or more persons, typically using a firearm, engaging in a random or systematic shooting spree. Traditional response to this type of incident has been to lockdown or shelter in place and wait for the police to arrive. While this type of response may have its advantages, case studies of several active shooter incidents have shown that using only this response has resulted in an increase in casualties.
Captain Frank was trained in 2009 and certified by the ALICE Training Institute as an ALICE instructor. Since that time, he has trained several thousand attendees in educational, public service, and private sector environments.
Following Captain Frank's presentation, and the drawing of our raffle winners, those brave enough to face Cedar Point's HalloWeekends headed two miles north into the park for a howling good time!
A big thanks to District A Director Julie Latham for putting together a fabulous event, and thank you to our attendees and our speaker for supporting OCRA!