IAFF Local 1796

Doing a Lil Extra: The City of Olean Fire Department adopted Gift Tree families. They also asked if there were families that could use Thanksgiving dinner fixin...gs. Four families were randomly chosen from the Gift Tree list to receive food. The deliveries were today 11/23/20. Thank you for all you do for our community, City of Olean FD! See more

PRESS RELEASE March 19, 2020 at 4 p.m. Cattaraugus County opened its Emergency Operations Center (EOC) as of 8:00 a.m. today, March 19, 2020, for the purpose of... monitoring and managing the Coronavirus/ COVID-19 emergency. At this time, the EOC will be open from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., seven (7) days per week for the duration of the event. A hotline number has been established to field non-emergency calls with questions regarding the County’s current test and quarantine numbers and any questions related to COVID-19. The number is (716) 938-9119. This number is available daily from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Additional numbers that may be of help: Cattaraugus County Health Department (716) 373-8050 Cattaraugus County Department of Aging (716) 373-8032 This situation is unique and constantly changing. We continue monitoring the status of COVID-19 both within Cattaraugus County and worldwide. At this time we have zero (0) positive cases in the county. As of 10:20 a.m. on March 19, 2020, Cattaraugus County has 82 people in mandatory quarantine, 14 in precautionary quarantine, and 33 test samples awaiting results. Mandatory Quarantine: Person has been in close contact (within six feet) with someone who is positive, but is not displaying symptoms for COVID-19, or a person who has traveled to China, Iran, Italy, Japan, or South Korea and is displaying symptoms of COVID-19. Precautionary Quarantine: Person has traveled to China, Iran, Japan, South Korea, or Italy while COVID-19 was prevalent, but not displaying symptoms, or a person who is known to have had a proximate exposure to a positive person but has not had direct contact and is not displaying symptoms. We encourage everyone to visit the County website that has been created to share Coronavirus/ COVID-19 information: https://www.cattco.org/term/coronavirus and to follow ongoing updates on our Facebook pages: Cattaraugus County Individual & Family Emergency Preparedness Cattaraugus County Health Department