Facilities Management - Evacuation Procedures - Building 103
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
POLICY FOR APPROPRIATE ACTION IF A FIRE OR ALARM OCCURS
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If you discover fire, smoke or hear the fire alarm:
* Leave the building immediately via the stairs. DO NOT USE THE ELEVATORS. As you leave close all doors, including those propped open.
* On your way out, you will pass a fire alarm pull station. If the alarm is not already ringing, PULL IT.
* Once outside, move as far away from the building as possible:
- People exiting from the west and south doors should move across the bike lanes and stand by the Music Building.
- People exiting from the east and north doors should move east across the parking lot and stand two parking rows away from the bulding.
* Building Monitor should call the University Police Department and report the details of the fire: MAIN CAMPUS UAPD 1-8273
* Remain outside the building until the "ALL CLEAR" is given by the Tucson Fire Department or UAPD.
For mobility impaired persons:
Should a mobility impaired person be able to exit the building without use of the elevator, (EXAMPLE - they are located on the ground level), then they should exit the building. If exit from the building is only possible by use of the elevator, follow the procedures outlined below:
* A co-worker, supervisor, or building monitor should escort any mobility impaired person to the nearest stairwell and instruct that person to remain in the stairwell. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CARRY ANYONE DOWN THE STAIRS. In case of a fire, the stairwells are "safe refuge areas for up to two hours, and include separate ventilation systems.
* Make sure all doors to the stairwell are closed. Open doors violate the safe refuge area and permit smoke, heat and other products of combustion into the stair.
* Once outside, the co-worker, supervisor or building monitor should inform the Tucson Fire Department Command Center that there is a mobility impaired person on a stair landing, which floor the person is on and location of the stair. Tucson Fire Department will determine whether or not to evacuate people from the stairwells.
* After the "ALL CLEAR" has been given by the Tucson Fire Department or UAPD, the co-worker, supervisor, or building monitor should go immediately to the stair landing and escort the mobility impaired person back to his/her workstation/classroom.
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POLICY FOR HALON ACTIVATION ALARM
If you routinely work in an area protected with a halon extinguishing system, there are several things you should be aware of in your work area:
1. The locations of fire alarm and fire suppression devices, (such as pull stations, fire extinguishers, smoke detectors, release nozzles, etc.),
2. The locations of exits, and
3. The locations of abort switches for the halon system.
Halon extinguishing systems have built in safetys which prevent accidental release of the extinguishing agent. At least two smoke detectors must activate before the agent is released. There is a time period before the agent is released which gives people a chance to activate an abort switch. This switch operates on a "dead man" principle. Once pushed in to abort the release of halon, the switch must be held until the fire department or police arrive and deactivate the system. If the switch is not held down, the halon will be released.