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NSU’s first University-Wide Emergency Practice Drill a Huge Success
After all of the preparation, planning and anticipation, NSU’s University-Wide Emergency Practice Drill on Thursday, March 17, 2016 went off without hitch. The drill was designed to replicate the LA County School incident when a credible threat of an explosive device was received via e-mail. Below is a brief summary of our first university-wide evacuation.
The drill began at 10:15 am for University School and 11:00 am for the rest of the university. All of the U-School buildings were evacuated by 10:20 am and the information was communicated to Public Safety’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC). By 10:22 am, students and staff were allowed to enter the buildings. By 10:25 am Public Safety verified that all of the Fire Alarm Systems at U-School had been re-set and with the exception of the Sonken Building, which completed re-entry at 10:30 am.
At 11:00 am, the second phase of the drill began. The fire alarm systems were activated, as well as the Emergency Notification system, which included Pop-Up notifications on computer screens, email, text and voice messages, federal speaker system, blue light phones, and digital marquees.
By 11:09 am, several regional campuses communicated their completed evacuation progress to the EOC, and at 11:10 am, all of the buildings on the Fort Lauderdale/Davie Campus were evacuated.
At 11:14 am, the EOC received information that the Oceanographic campus had conducted their evacuation, accounted for everyone at the emergency assembly point, re-entered the facility and returned to normal operations.
At 11:26 am, the EOC was notified that all regional campuses had conducted their evacuation, accounted for everyone at the emergency assembly point and re-entered the facility. By 11:30 am, most of the buildings on the Fort Lauderdale/Davie Campus were re-entered and at 12:03 pm, the entire University was back to normal operations. Students, faculty and staff received the “All Clear” from Public Safety and the EOC was shut down.
The University-Wide Emergency Practice Drill, which successfully evacuated 65 buildings and suites, illustrated the benefit of integrated emergency planning, and provided an opportunity to put these plans into action.
Fins up Sharks — we did it!!
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