Fire Drill Debrief

Dear Campus Community,

Let me start by thanking everyone for their participation in the campus fire evacuation drill yesterday. This drill is the kickoff for increased and continued emergency preparedness that will be a large focus of the Department of Safety & Security for the 23-24 school year. We have already identified a few areas that we are going to focus on for improvement of drills and for overall preparedness:

• Updated signage around campus with evacuation locations and AEDs
• There were several buildings (800, 1000, 1100, 1200, 5000) where the alarm sounded momentarily before shutting off. Rest assured; this was user error (on my part) as I inadvertently activated the alarm clearing sequence on the panel as I was attempting to activate the fire alarms across campus. Should your building alarms sound for an actual emergency, they will sound continuously until cleared by responding personnel.
• There were several buildings (1800, 1900, 2300, 4000, 2900, 3000) where the alarm never sounded or had to be triggered via a pull station. This was a known possible outcome due to work being done on the system as a part of the new construction projects and effected only communication between the panels. Should there be an emergency in any of those buildings, the alarms will sound and stay active until cleared by responding personnel. 

I would like to give you all the opportunity to provide feedback from your experience yesterday (both the good and the bad). Please feel free to fill out this survey 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeZgZE0oOy4OZfsmkajBSj0w2FJNh_9qgsF0ssET7QxDrsTdw/viewform

Respectfully,

Gregory Cranson

Acting Director of Safety & Security