Crisis Readiness at UAA

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Crisis Readiness at UAA

• Lt Ron Swartz
• Emergency Manager
• System Office of Risk Services
• 786.1149

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Where we are now

• MAU Emergency Operations Plan
• University Police CRT
• All-hazards annexes, CC supplement
• Emergency Coordination Center
• Disaster exercise calendar
• Building-specific Emergency Plans
• Evacuating- EAAs
• Sheltering in place
• Mass notification

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Shelter-in Place
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Mass Notification

• VoIP telephone speakers
• Police PAs and megaphones
• Mass e-mail
• Student Housing mass dialer
• Everbridge Aware
• UAA website (uaa.alaska.edu)
• Evacuation alarms
• KRUA KFQD

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Pandemic Influenza

• Department Continuity of Operations Plans
• Coordination with Public Health
• Public university PODs
• Social distancing

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Mass Vaccination Exercise- S.U.
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Full Scale Exercise 2008
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Campus-Community Exercises
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Campus- Community Exercises
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Trained Citizen Response

• Volunteers In Police Service (VIPS)
• Seawolf Safety Patrol
• Call Team Officers
• Campus- Community Response Team (C-CERT)

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VIPS- Anchorage
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Campus- CERT
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Campus- CERT training

• Organization
• Preparedness
• Medical operations
• Light search rescue
• Fire safety
• Terrorism
• Disaster Psychology

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Campus-CERT Training
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Employee Readiness

• Could you leave campus if you wanted to?
• Is your family prepared?
• What can you do to help?

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Volcanic Ash

• Cover electronics
• Filter air (face, furnace, engine)
• Shelter in place
• Drive slowly if you must drive
• Consider cash economy possibility
• Survival supplies for family pets?

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Damaging Earthquake

• Stop, drop, and hold!
• Survival triangle
• Assess for injuries, gas leaks, and spills
• Prepare for aftershocks
• Emergency assembly area
• What can you do to help?

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Active Violence

• Get away
• Call police
• Blockade indoors if you must
• Spread out in the room
• Prepare to take him out
• Follow police commands
• Expect to be detained