ATTENTION PARENTS & COMMUNITY MEMBERS:
The LeRoy-Ostrander School will be participating in a
District & Community Wide A.L.I.C.E. Drill
including Emergency Services (Fire, EMT, Police).
A.L.I.C.E. DRILL on
Friday, November 1st at 2:00 pm
The A.L.I.C.E. (Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate) Program takes a real look into an active shooter situation and teaches students and teachers what tactical advantages they have if a situation might occur that could keep them alive. The program is divided into five steps, and every step is important.
Alert: Sound an alarm of the situation at hand and call the police. Information of the situation should be provided by all possible means including the public address system. For example: Gunman in the cafeteria.
Lockdown: Doors should be locked to provide a time barrier and give students and teachers time to recognize the threat. If they are not in the danger zone, they should evacuate as quickly as possible.
Inform: If possible keep teachers, students, and the police up-to-date on the shooter’s location inside the school.
Counter: Interrupt the physical act of shooting. If the shooter walks into a classroom or hall and you have no escape route, start throwing anything and everything you can at him/her to interrupt his/her accuracy. This is a last resort and is a survival process to stay alive. If the gunman can be overpowered by multiple people after being distracted and hit with items, swarm the shooter and detain him.
Evacuate: We want as many people away from the situation as possible. If during the alert stage or any other stage the students are not near the shooter, students should evacuate as quickly as possible.
As you can see from multiple steps, evacuating and getting away from the situation as fast as possible is very important. Eagle Ridge Tactical Consulting and our schools are not teaching students or teachers fighting techniques. We are teaching survival strategies that will save lives in the event of an active shooter situation. Please do not take any part of this program out of context and portray it as something that would put students and teachers at risk unnecessarily. The safety of the students and teachers is our only concern, and we believe this program provides the best chance at staying alive in an active shooter situation.
