NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — In the city of New Haven, officials are activating a tier 2response after there were 19 overdoses in four days.

Unfortunately, one person died but 18 others survived.

“Tier 2 is 11 to 14 overdoses in 24 hours and then as you can imagine the higher number of overdoses would be a higher level of response," Mayor Justin Elicker said. "Above that, we would do robocall throughout the city to notify people. Tier 2 we use social media to engage our partners.”

This comes just six months after police officers in New Haven started training and administering NARCAN. A big voice in the fight to get NARCAN into the hands of New Haven’s police officers was Fiona Firine. Firine lost her 27-year-old son to a fentanyl overdose back in 2018 and since then, she’s worked tirelessl

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