Fire Alarm / Eemergency Instructions

• All fire alarms and VT Alerts are to be treated as real unless they specifically indicate they are tests/drills

For a fire alarm

• immediatly evacuate all students from the OpEL
• Raise your voice if necessary
• Be assertive, ask for help
• Students may leave belongings in the OpEL; it will be locked.
• Studnets may take their belongings is there is no immediate danger (fire, smoke, police instructions, etc)       
• If there is visible smoke or fire, leavy everything!

• Close all OpEL doors and make sure that they are locked.
• Leave the building using the nearest outside door
• Only after the "All Clear" signal is announced, return to the OpEL and re-open the doors

For a VT Alert

• May be delivered by message board, email, text messages, and phone messages
• Follow the instructions given
  • if they say stay in place, remain in the lab
  • if they say evacuate, exit the building immediatly.
  • instructions may be different for different parts of campus - follow the instructions carefully.

For visible fire or smoke

• Pull the fire alarm station near the elevator and evacuate the building.

For a medial emergency

• Call 911
• Render first aid if you are able.
• Have someone wait outside the building to direct emergency personnel to the victim.