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Fire
Procedures
For
any on-campus emergency, dial x1-911. From a cell phone dial (413)
538-2304.
- Fire and
the associated dangers of smoke, structural damage, or toxic releases
can pose serious threats of injury and death to students, employees,
visitors, and emergency response personnel. In order to control
a fire and minimize its damage, the following steps should be
taken immediately:
- * Leave
the area at once.
* Pull the fire alarm.
* Alert other people in the area and instruct them to leave the
building.
* Close, DO NOT LOCK, all doors and windows if you can safely
do so to help contain the fire.
* Stay as low as possible to avoid smoke and heat.
* Evacuate the building calmly, but quickly, following evacuation
and assembly procedures posted in the building.
* Do not use elevators.
* Go directly to the designated assembly area and await additional
instructions. Report anyone who is missing and who was in your
classroom or area when the evacuation began to the Building Captain.
* Call 1-911 from a safe location. .
* Remain at the assembly area until you are instructed how to
proceed by the Public Safety staff or South Hadley Fire Department
official.
If Trapped:
1. Alert
emergency responders of your location by whistling, shouting or
using an object to beat on walls, floor in a rhythmic manner.
2. If a telephone is available, call extension 1-911
(413-538-2304 from a cell phone) and notify the Public Safety
Personnel of your location; you may also place an article of clothing
or other device to use as a signal in a window, if a window is
available.
3. Stuff material in door cracks to minimize smoke and try to
stay low, near the floor, where heat, smoke, and contaminants
may be less.
4. If you are injured, tend to injuries.
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DO
NOT TRY TO FIGHT A FIRE; LEAVE ANY BUILDING AND REPORT TO A
SAFE MEETING AREA AWAY FROM THE BUILDING
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