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Are you Ready for an Emergency?
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As a UCSB student, you are now a resident of "earthquake country" and you need to
think deliberately and frequently about what to do when the next quake or other
disaster occurs. Your personal emergency preparedness will mean a calmer, more sensible
response that can minimize property damage and injury. Emergency preparedness at
UCSB begins with personal planning. Each student must take responsibility for being
ready when the next quake comes. Use the following list of tips if you are living
in a residence hall.
How to Make Your Room Safer
- Check to be sure nothing heavy or breakable is hanging over your bed or desk-most
injuries result from falling objects, not from collapsing buildings.
- Place your
bed or desk chair so it is not directly next to or under a window. If this isn't
possible, sleep or sit with your head away from the window.
- Keep all breakables
in secure low cabinets. Secure your computer to its table-you can use Velcro to
attach computer parts to each other and to the table.
- Identify safe and danger
spots in your room. Safe spots: under heavy furniture like a sturdy table or desk,
in interior hallways, or braced in an interior corner away from shelves and windows.
Danger spots: near windows, glass doors, mirrors, hanging objects, tall unsecured
furniture, fireplaces, sky lights, and kitchen area.
- Keep exit routes clear. Do
not block doors and hallways.
- Know and practice exit routes from your residence.
Think about how to evacuate your classrooms and dining commons.
- Be familiar with
the floor plan of your residence hall or apartment building. Know where the stairs
and closest exits are. Be familiar with emergency plans in residence halls.
Tips for Individuals with Limited Mobility or other Disabilities
- Make a list of your special needs, medications, and/or special equipment. Keep one
with you. Update it often.
- Ask people to be your "buddies" to help you in an emergency.
Give them a copy of your self-assessment list. Practice with them what you all would
do in an emergency.
- Have any auxiliary devices you use, as well as extra batteries,
medications, or other necessary items, nearby at all times.
- If you are able, get
under a table or into a doorway. If you are in a wheelchair, lock the wheels of
the chair once you are in a protected spot.
- If you cannot move safely and quickly,
stay where you are and cover your head and body with your arms, pillow, etc.
- If
you are hearing impaired, stockpile extra batteries for your hearing aids; include
a pad and pencil in your emergency supplies for communicating; ask a neighbor or
friend to relay emergency information as it comes over the radio.
- Call for help
if you need it. Use a whistle or flashlight. Bring attention to yourself any way
you can.
Emergency Supplies
Pack and have immediately available in case of an emergency.
- Legal papers: driver's license, birth certificate/passport, credit card information,
and immunization records
- flashlight and extra batteries
- portable battery-powered
AM/FM radio and extra batteries
- sturdy shoes
- personal hygiene supplies including
tissues, soap, towel, pre-moistened towelettes, and scissors
- first aid kit
- essential
medications, prescriptions, spare eyeglasses or contact lenses with solution
- $10
in quarters + extra cash
- phone number of an out-of-state contact that all family
members use
- one gallon of bottled water per person per day
- extra non-perishable
food such as peanut butter, canned tuna, canned fruit, soups, crackers, manual can
opener.
IN CASE OF EMERGENCY
In an emergency involving the UCSB campus and/or the community of Isla Vista...
- Tune to radio station KCSB-FM (91.9) or AM 1610 for emergency information.
- Visit the campus Web site for links to event updates and resource information,
www.ucsb.edu.
- Visit the campus emergency phone number site, for numbers and links, www.ucsb.edu/emergency.
- Call the (888) 488-UCSB (8272) line. Parties may call in to hear a recorded information message.
- Register for the emergency notification system, UCSB ALERT. Students,
faculty, staff, parents and visitors can then receive text-capable messages via
their cell phones, Blackberry devices, wireless PDAs, pagers, and e-mail. Go to
alert.ucsb.edu/ and click on the button marked "Click Here to Register."
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