BASIC INFORMATION FOR DISASTERS

All teachers, staff, and students must take cover when an earthquake or other disaster occurs. Wait until all movement and/or sound has stopped before getting up.

1. Check for injured students as you verbally reassure and give directions to other students. If a student or staff member is injured, dead, or cannot be moved, use any paper available to indicate name and apparent injury or condition. Pull a table over the victim for protection from falling objects. Cover with space blanket, if needed.

2. Check on your neighbors before evacuating to the baseball field.

3. Mark your door with a sticker: Red means “Victim Inside” - dead or injured
Green means “All Clear”

4. Evacuate buildings trying to stay away from overhangs, if possible. Exit routes should be well known but flexible in case your path is blocked. Always walk with your students. Take your backpack, class roll, and personal duffel bag.

5. Take roll when you reach your assigned area on the baseball field. Encourage students to stay in line so you can complete roll taking. Report all injured, trapped, dead, or missing persons to the Command Center using the “All Accounted For” form provided in your backpack. (Sample forms for drill purposes only are in the front small pocket. In an actual emergency, use the duplicate form located in the locked part of your backpack and send both copies to the Command Center.)

6. Send a runner (in an orange vest and name tag with student’s and teacher’s names) to the Command Center with “All Accounted For” form. Runners will stay at the Command Center/ Runners’ Pool to await further assignments, such as helping on one of the teams. Designated students (pre-arranged, minimum 18 years old) will check into their class and then report to the Amphitheater to assist with search and rescue. Keep a record of the students sent to be runners.

7. Do not allow students to leave evacuation area unless student release sends for them. In a real emergency, portable toilets will be set up. Drills usually last one hour.

8. If you are assigned to a specific team, leave your class roll sheet and backpack with the teacher closest to your class to supervise. Report to your team.

9. If a disaster occurs during a passing period, lunch, or immediately after school, students go to the field area of the LAST class they attended. If before school, go to the first period area.

10. All students in offices, library, etc., are to be escorted to the baseball field to their regular class position for that period. Unassigned adults should report to the Command Center to get further instructions and to help where needed.

11. There are three disaster containers. First Aid is on the softball field. The other two containers are located next to M44-45.

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